Re: Virtio, Netbsd 9.0 and Virtualbox

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:28:32 +0100
Pierre Dupond <76nemo76%gmx.ch@localhost> wrote:

>       I use VirtualBox 6.1 on Windows 10 to run NetBSD 9.0.
> I want to use the VirtIO controler provided by VirtualBox 6.1 with a disk
> attached to it.
> 
> Neither the controler nor the disk are recognised by the GENERIC kernel.

> Do you have an idea on what is missing?

Yes. The PCI vendor and device ids for virtio changed according to
virtio 1.0 spec and the drivers no longer match. I don't know if it a
simple matter of adding the PCI ids or if it needs other changes
to conform with the new specification.

-Tobias