qemu wiredness; it crashes windows

[Brynet-Inc]

This forum would have no meaningful purpose now would it

Yeah. Now someone asks, for example, "How to install OpenBSD" ? and someone says: "Type FORMAT C:", do you, Brynet?

inflater

Huh?

Generally one would boot the OpenBSD CD-ROM/ISO then simply remove the FAT/NTFS slice and then add a BSD slice.. (The install will then write the FFS file system on that new slice..)

I myself would recommend a Low level format (Zero-Fill) on any drive before that really.. Cleaning up the previous Windows pollution

FORMAT C: is a good sign you used DOS on Win9x in the past... Shame on you

[jhawthorn]

Qemu on windows in in alpha status. Probably for this very reason. Though the 100% CPU usage problem seems to be universal.

I've noticed that the 100% CPU thing is only present when using the SDL interface, Using my patched OpenBSD branch with the curses interface.. It uses around 5%~ when in an idle state.

What your observing is the difference between

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loop:
jmp loop

and

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loop:
hlt
jmp loop

It should have very little to do with the interface (a ps just gave me 1.1% under the SDL interface for the latter). I should not have called the 100% CPU usage a universal problem, as on Linux and BSD the scheduler does not seem to starve the other processes and thus qemu's functionality provides a both expected and tolerated result.

[bubach]

Huh?

He might be referring to the fact that you usally write "use open source software" or "install bsd" to quite a few questions where other answers might be more helpful.

Anyway, lets go "outside" and i'll show you who's right. *shaking fits*

[Brynet-Inc]

He might be referring to the fact that you usally write "use open source software" or "install bsd" to quite a few questions where other answers might be more helpful.

Yeah I know what he was referring to, I just like messing with peoples minds..

[Subliminal Message]
Use BSD!
Use Open Source!
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Anyway, lets go "outside" and i'll show you who's right. *shaking fits*

I'd so win..

[Candy]

This thread has turned from a doubtful conversation into a virtual fits/fistfight. Locked.