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

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland%ilande.co.uk@localhost>]

On 23/08/2023 13:25, 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

So the good news is that the latest version of the QEMU 68k MacOS patches have now 
been merged to QEMU git master, so 8.2 will allow you to install NetBSD 
out-of-the-box when used with a real Q800 ROM.

Paul, thanks for posting the guide above. I should add that the q800.upstream3 branch 
is very old, and there have been a fair number of fixes since then. Certainly any 
testing and bug reports should now be made against the QEMU upstream repository.


ATB,

Mark.