Subject: Re: NetBSD VM support?
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/18/2004 17:54:23
Daniel Carosone said:

>I'm not sure if it does, it never occurred to me to try.  NetBSD/vax
>runs quite nicely under simh, though it's not so kind to the host.

I've got NetBSD/vax 1.5.2 running on the latest SIMH on NetBSD -current.
I followed the SIMH directions to build with libpcap in order to have
network access, however, networking doesn't work.

The box is a dual Xeon running with GENERIC.MP.

When booting NetBSD/vax:

Configuring network interfaces: qe0qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)
qe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1980)

vax1# ifconfig -a              
qe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
        inet 216.17.154.245 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 216.17.154.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:2bff:feaa:bbcc%qe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

VAX simulator V3.2-2


KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
Performing normal system tests.
40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
08..07..06..05..04..03..
Tests completed.

>>>show ethernet
Ethernet Adapter 0 (774440)
-XQA0 (08-00-2B-AA-BB-CC)

Any ideas?
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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com