Re: qemu needs an upgrade

Ryo ONODERA <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: David Brownlee <[email protected]>, Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:21:26 +0100

> On 2 June 2012 19:21, Ryo ONODERA <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> From: Mayuresh <[email protected]>, Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:43:07 +0530
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:31:57PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>>>> I am trying to run Linux through qemu.
>>>>
>>>> I face the following issue: "8254 timer not connected" which seems a bug
>>>> in old versions and likely to have been fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Current pkgsrc revision is qemu-0.15.1 while the latest release seems 1.1.0.
>>>
>>> PS: I notice wip/qemu which is relatively recent. Will try that first.
>>
>> Current wip/qemu (qemu-system-sparc) is not suitable
>> for NetBSD/sparc 5.1.2 at least.
>> I use emulators/qemu for pkgsrc on NetBSD/sparc development.
>> And I cannot update emulators/qemu.
>> # I have no time and skill to investigate this problem.
>>
>> I will try qemu-1.1 later.
> 
> If the older qemu is still needed for some cases would it make sense
> to reimport it as qemu0 and import the new version as qemu or qemu1

Thanks for your point.
I feel the following is good.

emulators/qemu0		qemu-0.15.1
emulators/qemu		qemu-1.1.0

I will reimport and update qemu0 and qemu later.

Thank you again.

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