Re: Qemu running on DragonFly

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francois Tigeot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I justed wanted to let you know that emulators/qemu is working great
> with DragonFly as a host.
>
> It doesn't build out of the box with pkgsrc, but the following patches fix
> the compilation problems:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2007/08/19/0001.html
>
> They were sent by Patrick Georgi back in august and never commited.
> I have opened a PR (pkg/37463).
>
> Using the network in bridge mode is a little bit tricky but these commands
> did it for me (I use tap2):
>
> ln -s /dev/tap2 /dev/tap
> ifconfig bridge0 create
> ifconfig tap2 up
> ifconfig bridge0 addm tap2
> ifconfig bridge0 up
>
> qemu -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap2,script=no -hda diskfile.img -m 256 -localtime

Thank you for that!

Bill Hacker