Building and Installing QEMU on OpenSolaris nee OS200805

Building and Installing QEMU on an OpenSolaris (os200805) Host 

Updated July 03, 2008

Updated kqemu-1.4.0pre1 (fix file name 1.0.4pre1 -> 1.4.0pre1)
and increase default monitor size from 32MB to 128MB.

Updated kqemu-1.3.0pre11 (fix file name 1.0.3pre11 -> 1.3.0pre11)
and increase default monitor size from 32MB to 128MB.

Intro:

QEMU with the TCG generator and KQEMU-1.4.0pre1 are used together, or
QEMU with the Dyngen generator and KQEMU-1.3.0pre11 are used together.
Do not mix the two code bases.

Prerequisites:

• QEMU TCG (Tiny Code Generator) source SVN version 0.9.1, June 22, 2008
• Use subversion to get the latest trunk - svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk qemu

and 

• Optional KQEMU source TCG Enabled QEMU version 1.4.0pre1, July 03, 2008 the i386/x86_64 kernel acceleration module

OR

• QEMU Dyngen Enabled source CVS version 0.9.1, December 11, 2007

and

• Optional KQEMU source for Dyngen Enabled QEMU, version 1.3.0pre11, July 03, 2008 the i386/x86_64 kernel acceleration module

• SUNWgcc - gcc3.4.x with the existing Dyngen code on the QEMU OpenSolaris
  Project page, gcc-3.4.x is required. with the current SVN TCG code, we may be able to use gcc4 or Studio 12.
• SUNWlibsdl - libSDL. Native on OS200805
• SUNWbtool - /usr/bin/ar - the library archiver
• SUNWtexi - texi2html - convert texinfo files to html
• SUNWperl584 - pod2man - convert pod files to manpages
• SUNWgmake - gmake - GNU make 
• SUNWgnu-coreutils - ginstall - GNU Install program
• SUNWxwinc - X11 Include headers
• SUNWgnome-common-devel - /usr/bin/pkg-config - to extract include/libraries prom package config files
• SUNWgnutls - GNU Transport Layer Security library - for vnc security

pkg install SUNWgcc SUNWgmake SUNWgnu-coreutils SUNWxwinc SUNWgnome-common-devel SUNWgnutls

• Optional Open Sound System. By default, QEMU can use SunAudio through libSDL, but the Open Sound System produces better results

Consult the dependencies page for more detailed information. Pre-packaged and patched sources are available from the downloads page.

Your path should look something like this if you're using Sun's provided GCC and libSDL (as is available on OS200805):

 PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/perl5/bin

If you are compiling QEMU for a 64-bit host on OS200805,
your path should look like:

 PATH=/usr/bin/amd64:/usr/bin:/usr/perl5/bin

Building and Installing QEMU

If you're reading this page, you get the hint that you need to disable the gcc check, which assumes that you haven't read any of the documentation yet. Seeing as you're here, you are expected to be using a recommended gcc compiler...

--target-list="the list of qemu virtual machines that are configured"

32-bit:

 ./configure --prefix=/opt/qemu --target-list=i386-softmmu --disable-gcc-check

 pfexec gmake install

64-bit:

 ./configure --prefix=/opt/qemu  --target-list=x86_64-softmmu,i386-softmmu --disable-gcc-check

 pfexec gmake install

Building and Installing the KQEMU Module

(duplicating the contents of README.solaris in the kqemu tarball)

32-bit:

 ./configure

 gmake kqemu32

 pfexec gmake install32

 pfexec chmod 666 /dev/kqemu

64-bit:

 ./configure

 gmake kqemu64

 pfexec gmake install64

 pfexec chmod 666 /dev/kqemu