Re: NetBSD vs. VirtualBox

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:58:17 -0700
> 
> First off I often get repeated key presses on the console (making it
> impossible to login there -- one key press repeats up to dozens of
> times).  It seems kind of random -- I can't find what's triggering it (I
> thought it was if I pressed <enter> to skip the boot countdown, but
> that's not it).  It only happens at the login prompt, not in the
> bootloader.

Sounds like the same thing as PR 60467, also reported only under vbox:

PR kern/60467: timers and console keyboard driver broken with 32 GiB
of RAM
https://gnats.NetBSD.org/60467

Can you please add dmesg with `boot -vx' and kern.timecounter output
from working and not-working environments to that PR?

And, do you observe the same timekeeping issue (and keyboard
autorepeat issue) under utm/qemu, or is it just under vbox?