From fe380d8f49eacb1670e89bd7eef1adc6dbcebc1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Conrad Pankoff Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 07:45:12 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Describe compatible QEMU versions --- Meta/BuildInstructions.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Meta/BuildInstructions.md b/Meta/BuildInstructions.md index 8ee623a3d3..b24d3cc33d 100644 --- a/Meta/BuildInstructions.md +++ b/Meta/BuildInstructions.md @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ For Serenity, we will need e2fsprogs and QEMU: sudo apt install e2fsprogs qemu-system-i386 +Note: there is a problem with the PS/2 keyboard/mouse emulation in QEMU 2.11.1 as packaged in Ubuntu's LTS releases. If you have any strange behaviour with missing keyboard inputs or jittery mouse movement, try building QEMU from source. 2.12.1, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, and 4.0.0 are all confirmed as working when built from source. + ## Binutils: Download GNU binutils-2.32 and apply the patch serenity/Meta/binutils-2.32-serenity.patch