Re: Windows 10 or 11 as guest on Netbsd/amd64 with nvmm + sound?

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On Friday, 30 May 2025 at 15:01, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:

> hello everyone! I'm wondering if anyone on this list is running MS Windows 10 or 11 on
> their AMD64 NetBSD machine using nvmm and Qemu? Also, if you have it working, do you have
> sound working from Windows as well? If you do, would you send over a description of the steps you
> used to get things working and what yur setup is?
> 
> -thanks
> -Brian


FWIW, I *used to* run a few such guests. I have since passed ove the hardware to someone who can use it better and at the moment do not have a NetBSD system running full time on real hardware (excepting my unbound server, installed just for a try on a RPI model B some 10 years ago and still doing its job under some -current NetBSD 8:)... It used to work fine for me, started like:

/usr/pkg/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -device qemu-xhci \
        -device usb-tablet \
        -m 3072M \
        -k en-gb \
        -accel nvmm \
        -vnc :5 \
        -drive format=raw,file=/dev/zvol/rdsk/pail/w10 \
        -vga vmware \
        -net tap,fd=3 3<>/dev/tap0 \
        -net nic

and 

/usr/pkg/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -device qemu-xhci \
        -device usb-tablet \
        -machine q35 \
        -m 4096 \
        -k en-gb \
        -smp 2 \
        -accel nvmm \
        -vnc :2 \
        -drive format=raw,file=/dev/zvol/rdsk/pail/w19 \
        -vga vmware \
        -net tap,fd=3 3<>/dev/tap2 \
        -net nic

for W10 and server 2019. The access was via VNC so I never actually tested any sound unfortunately. But the systems were surely usable. Obviously from the above, I had my virtual disks all setup as ZFS zvols, machines were connected to the main network via a bridge as usual. 

Chavdar