From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:56:51 EDT." <9ab217670904051356x62f40acfxfb720810a81b60f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <9ab217670904051209y1441a68cl448d54b396e6978f@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670904051212k16f756c9s9668343cac98d15d@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904051232y2b2989d1qfa193c27679dfb2f@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670904051254x5ac18b56vc7a07cf73a4c8e30@mail.gmail.com> <20090405205213.C02F45B21@mail.bitblocks.com> <9ab217670904051356x62f40acfxfb720810a81b60f0@mail.gmail.com> From: Bakul Shah Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:43:52 -0700 Message-Id: <20090406004352.E7B495B21@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Stuck at partdisk Topicbox-Message-UUID: d2e5d5d0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:56:51 EDT "Devon H. O'Dell" wrote: > 2009/4/5 Bakul Shah : > > On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:54:19 EDT "Devon H. O'Dell" > wrote: > >> 2009/4/5 ron minnich : > >> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Devon H. O'Dell > wr > >> ote: > >> >> 2009/4/5 Devon H. O'Dell : > >> >>> Ideas? > >> >> > >> >> Works fine if I turn off DMA. > >> > > >> > no need to have DMA on on qemu anyway, so you have a workaround. > >> > >> Except that it's now looking to take about 5 hours to install on my 3 > >> core AMD64 box with 8GB RAM :) > > > > It is likely a problem with the version of qemu you are > > running. On freebsd-current with qemu-0.10.1 there is no > > problem with DMA (just tried with today's ISO). > > Must be FreeBSD-CURRENT i386, because it sure isn't working on > FreeBSD-CURRENT amd64 with a tree I built last night :) It's on an amd64 (3 years old, 2GB, Athlon X2). -current as of Mar 21, qemu & kqemu-devel were built on mar 29. I am using qemu, not qemu-system-x86_64 as the emulation of its 32 bit mode is not good enough. Make sure you haven't loaded aio.ko as async. IO is no longer necessary for kqemu. Not sure if 8GB is a problem but to test that you can disable kqemu.