Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Since this appears to be a known problem, is there a PR for it?
>
> It's an issue between NetBSD an qemu - the same thing happens with a
> netbsd boot cd in qemu.

That's not my experience.  I just tried running

 qemu -cdrom release/i386/installation/cdrom/boot-com.iso -serial stdio -nographic -boot d

using the same ISO image that hung with Xen, and it booted just fine.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org