Subject: Re: NetBSD 4.x on QEMU
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/20/2007 16:02:09
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Mark Weinem wrote:

> >     I see this too - booting the latest nightly 4.0BETA2 INSTALL_LARGE
> >     kernel under qemu-0.9.0. Interestingly a non ACPI kernel seems to
> >     be fine. Could you file a PR on this so it doesn't get lost?
> 
> Yes, it's the ACPI issue.
> 
> For NetBSD 4.0 it's necessary to start qemu with disabled ACPI support:
> 
> 	 $ qemu -no-acpi ...

Can someone document that in pkgsrc/emulators/qemu/MESSAGE?