Re: NetBSD in kvm?

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On 11/08/10 16:57, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> A week ago, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > On 31.10.2010 16:54, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> > > > does anyone know whether NetBSD runs paravirtualized as a kvm guest
> >
> > Unfortunately not. The SeaBIOS has a bug which causes NetBSD
> > to not find any PCI devices.
>
> Right - that's PR 38729 (and 42681).
>
> > (Since vga0 attaches on pci it stops booting with
> > 'no console found')
>
> Not if you use a serial console.  Your virtual network adapter choices
> will be rather limited, though; ne2k_isa is probably the best bet.
>
> The PCI issue of PR 38729 has been worked around in -current since CVS
> date 2009.06.13.13.35.11, but a different problem appeared on
> 2009.11.04.14.39.17 that causes the kernel to hang during boot under
> kvm - I just filed PR 44069 about that.  Versions from between those
> dates might even work :)

Thanks for all the answers. Even if a particular -CURRENT snapshot
would work, it's not a base for a productional svn/http-server, isn't it?

So I think I shouldn't use NetBSD in kvm for now (but on plain hardware).

Thank you very much,
Jens