Re: Trouble using current under qemu

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Julio Merino wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a NetBSD/amd64 -current VM under VMware Fusion under which I'm
> trying to run anita with qemu (1.3.0) for testing purposes. Things are
> not working well:
>
> Under qemu, I can see the NetBSD bootloader showing up.  If I let the
> bootloader time out and start the boot process by itself, the load of
> the kernel gets stuck to the point where it never asks for a second
> floppy disk. If I hit enter explicitly at the bootloader, then the
> kernel boots up fine and then gets stuck later after vmt0 attempts to
> initialize.
>
> This happens with anita and outside of anita if I run the installation
> image with qemu.
>
> Any ideas? Has anyone else seen this?

I've seen similar, and it seems to be an issue with qemu.  See the 
thread at

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/03/02/msg017785.html


The expectation is it would work if you go back to earlier version of 
qemu (version 1.2.0nb2 should be good).



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