Re: qemu needs an upgrade

David Brownlee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <CAGN_6pY5VVOyDmjjgE8KyJG3oSeDSzCSO4=JeXh2b==8fpCYag@mail.gmail.com>
On 3 June 2012 18:17, Ryo ONODERA <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Perfect - many thanks!
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