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

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 07:20:48AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 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.

Ah! Cool - I've updated that page noting the patch merging, and I'll do
some more testing when I get enough round tuits.

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Paul Ripke
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