QEMU upstream marked DragonFly BSD as unsupported host systems in 2.9 release

[Zachary Crownover]

Yes, running qemu in a dfly system will be unsupported. Running a dfly
instance as a vm on a supported host will be the same.

On May 20, 2017 9:10 PM, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie at aspetrie.net>
wrote:

> A DragonFlyBSD Newbie Here,
>
> Thanks to Aaron Lee for posting the interesting news about QEMU and
> DragonFlyBSD.
>
> 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..
>
> * * *
> * * *
>
> Just looking to clarify the implications of the announcement by the QEMU
> folks.
>
> It is my understanding, that:
>
> 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.
>
> and
>
> 2. The announcement has nothing to do with running DragonFlyBSD as
> a *guest* os on a QEMU VM hosted on Linux.
>
> Is my understanding correct ?
>
> * * *
> * * *
>
> Thanks in advance for any responses.
>
> Steve
>
> * * *
>
> Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
>
> http://aspetrie.net/
> ITS-ETO Consortium
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> (905) 847-3253
> apetrie at aspetrie.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me>
> *To:* users at dragonflybsd.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2017 1:31 AM
> *Subject:* QEMU upstream marked DragonFly BSD as unsupported host systems
> in 2.9 release
>
> Hello DFlyers,
>
>
> I just noticed from the Phoronix news [1], that QEMU upstream are dropping
> supports of some host systems in the 2.9 release [2], and DragonFly BSD
> is one of them:
>
> > This release includes changes to the configure script so that it will
> > now report some host operating systems and platforms as "unsupported".
> > These are host setups which we do not have access to and are thus
> > unable to test. They will continue to work in this 2.9 release
> > (though configure will warn you about the unsupported status), but
> > in a future QEMU release we may drop support for those hosts unless
> > somebody volunteers to help us with maintaining them (and can provide
> > build/CI machines).
>
> The list of unsupported host systems are:
> * ia64 (architecture)
> * GNU/kFreeBSD
> * DragonFly BSD
> * NetBSD
> * OpenBSD
> * Solaris
> * AIX
> * Haiku
>
> Note that one of NetBSD developer already volunteered to maintain the
> NetBSD
> support in QEMU.
>
> As far as I known, QEMU may be the only emulator that works well on
> DragonFly
> BSD, therefore, it would be great to have better DFly support in QEMU.
> Somebody interested may have a further look at this.
>
>
> [1] Phoronix: NetBSD Looking to Improve QEMU Support:
> https://phoronix.com/sca
> n.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-Better-NetBSD
> [2] QEMU: Warning of unsupported host systems: http://wiki.qemu.org/
> ChangeLog/
> 2.9#Warning_of_unsupported_host_systems
> [3] NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/
> entry/n
> etbsd_maintainer_in_the_qemu
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Aly
>
>
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