Re: NetBSD/amd64 in QEMU/KVM

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently I tried to install NetBSD/amd64 in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine.
> This failed with an early kernel panic because the install kernel was
> not able to find the emulated graphics adapter. I also tried NetBSD/i386
> and it worked fine in this environment. It turned out that adding the
> line
>
> vga0            at isa?
>
> to the kernel configuration of the install and generic kernel fixed that
> problem. The resulting install-iso booted fine to the installer. Maybe
> this option should be enabled per default in the amd64 configuration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joerg

A good question here is, why does NetBSD not find the PCI VGA card.
Does QEMU/KVM provide a PCI VGA card ?

Christoph