Re: NetBSD in QEMU (was Re: Installation Error For Mac68k NetBSD on SE/30)

[Stan Johnson <userm57%yahoo.com@localhost>]

thanks, that's good information; I'll give it a try.

On 8/23/23 6:25 AM, Paul Ripke wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 10:28:43AM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On 8/22/23 7:54 AM, Paul Ripke wrote:
>>> fwiw, I successfully installed netbsd mac68k under qemu, by booting an
>>> install kernel from hfs, and running from there. I gave it a second
>>> 1GiB disk image for netbsd, which sysinst dutifully partitioned and
>>> created an ffsv1 filesystem on.
>>>
>>> The booter now successfully loads and boots the netbsd kernel from
>>> the ffsv1 filesystem.
>>>
>>> I haven't tried bigger disk images, but this setup is great for
>>> experimentation, and easy enough to do.
>>>
>>
>> Please post some information about how you got NetBSD to run in QEMU,
>> including your version of QEMU, your QEMU command line, etc. Does your
>> NetBSD client have network access? Does it need to be able to boot Mac
>> OS 7.5.5?
>>
>> I've used QEMU to create reference GNU/Linux root filesystems (Debian
>> SID and Gentoo) for m68k ("-M q800" and "-M virt"), but I've never
>> installed NetBSD in QEMU.
>>
>> thanks for any information
> 
> I started taking notes, but skipped a few steps. I should probably run
> through the process again and fill in the gaps. So, ymmv:
> 
> https://www.stix.id.au/wiki/NetBSD-mac68k_under_qemu
>