Re: NetBSD 5.1-amd64 fails to boot in QEMU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:44:01PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> I found myself with some spare cycles on a reasonably decent Xeon
> server running XenServer 6.
> 
> NetBSD fully virtualized mode is probably a non-starter. There is a
> long-standing problem with the interrupt timer on the emulated RealTek
> network hardware, one gets timeouts all the time and the performance
> is abysmal. There have been some patches along the way which to the

this is the re(4) driver. If you disable it (either with boot -c,
or building a new kernel) and let it use rtk(4), it works fine.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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