Re: qemu needs an upgrade

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>]

From: David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>, Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:21:26 
+0100

> On 2 June 2012 19:21, Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> From: Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>, 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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