Re: qemu-system-sparc stays "parked"?

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM John D. Baker <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2026, Julian Coleman wrote:
>
> > However, if you start the VM with a graphical console, you can use 4 CPU's.
>
> Yes, restarting my SSH session with "-X" and starting qemu w/o
> "-nographic", I can get it past the scsi device attachments and it runs
> 'rc' up until starting 'postfix' where it gets stuck.  I can interrupt
> that and 'getty' prints the login prompt and I can attempt to login,
> but so far as I know 'login' never runs to ask for the password.  'top'
> on the host again shows 'qemu-system-sparc' in "parked" state, moving
> between the various CPU cores.
>
> Killing 'qemu' and restarting as default SS-5 w/max RAM (256MB) seems to
> run just fine and it is building packages without further complaint.
>
> (Does it really emulate the reported 170MHz, or does it run as fast as
> the emulation/host CPU allows?)

I think "as far as host CPU allow"

You can try "opnessl speed sha256" (? line from Slackware, but should
work in netBSD too) in guest and compare its results with real
machines ....


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