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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A DragonFlyBSD Newbie Here,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks to Aaron Lee for posting the interesting
news about QEMU and DragonFlyBSD.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My business strategy for a new website has
DragonFlyBSD running as a guest os on a QEMU / KVM virtual machine. I
already have a prototype DragonFly installation on a VM at ElasticHosts. But I
have not touched it in many months, due to changed business priorities.
Nevertheless, I continue to follow this DragonFlyBSD email discussion forum with
great interest. And I do plan eventually to get back to using DragonFlyBSD on
that VM..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Just looking to clarify the implications of the
announcement by the QEMU folks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It is my understanding, that:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>1. The announcement that DragonFlyBSD
is now an unsupported *host* os for QEMU, refers to the ability of
DragonFlyBSD to host the QEMU facilities that provide VMs.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>2. The announcement has nothing to do with running
DragonFlyBSD as a *guest* os on a QEMU VM hosted on
Linux.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Is my understanding correct ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks in advance for any responses.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Steve</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>* * *</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Steve Petrie, P.Eng.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=aly@aaronly.me href="mailto:aly@aaronly.me">Aaron LI</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=users@dragonflybsd.org
href="mailto:users@dragonflybsd.org">users@dragonflybsd.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 18, 2017 1:31
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> QEMU upstream marked DragonFly
BSD as unsupported host systems in 2.9 release</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello DFlyers,<BR><BR><BR>I just noticed from the Phoronix news
[1], that QEMU upstream are dropping<BR>supports of some host systems in the
2.9 release [2], and DragonFly BSD<BR>is one of them:<BR><BR>> This release
includes changes to the configure script so that it will<BR>> now report
some host operating systems and platforms as "unsupported".<BR>> These are
host setups which we do not have access to and are thus<BR>> unable to
test. They will continue to work in this 2.9 release<BR>> (though configure
will warn you about the unsupported status), but<BR>> in a future QEMU
release we may drop support for those hosts unless<BR>> somebody volunteers
to help us with maintaining them (and can provide<BR>> build/CI
machines).<BR><BR>The list of unsupported host systems are:<BR>* ia64
(architecture)<BR>* GNU/kFreeBSD<BR>* DragonFly BSD<BR>* NetBSD<BR>*
OpenBSD<BR>* Solaris<BR>* AIX<BR>* Haiku<BR><BR>Note that one of NetBSD
developer already volunteered to maintain the NetBSD<BR>support in
QEMU.<BR><BR>As far as I known, QEMU may be the only emulator that works well
on DragonFly<BR>BSD, therefore, it would be great to have better DFly support
in QEMU. <BR>Somebody interested may have a further look at
this.<BR><BR><BR>[1] Phoronix: NetBSD Looking to Improve QEMU Support: <A
href="https://phoronix.com/sca">https://phoronix.com/sca</A><BR>n.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-Better-NetBSD<BR>[2]
QEMU: Warning of unsupported host systems: <A
href="http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/">http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/</A><BR>2.9#Warning_of_unsupported_host_systems<BR>[3]
NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project: <A
href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/n">https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/n</A><BR>etbsd_maintainer_in_the_qemu<BR><BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>--
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