Re: how to set up nvme

Hello,

[email protected], le dim. 12 avril 2026 19:49:32 +0000, a ecrit:
> I read the comment by sthibaul on lwn.net. The post says to test the nvme
> driver from rump.

It also says that the nvme driver needs to be enabled inside rump.  That
hasn't been done so far, so rump needs to be rebuilt with the driver
enabled.

Samuel

> I would like to, so I tried using the documentation from
> 
> https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/rump/rumpdisk/
> 
> and
> 
> https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/running/flash_qemu_img/
> 
> Instead of switching hd occurences to wd I set it to ld.
> 
> I guess the correct naming is nvme instead of ld:
> 
> https://man.netbsd.org/nvme.4
> 
> My BIOS does not detect the NVMe hard disk now. I guess the correct naming
> is necessary for the BIOS. Is there any documentation that I missed I should
> read. Searching for nvme does not bring up much in my e-mail.
> 
> What is the MAX memory? When I try booting from kvm I use -m 4G and it
> crashes during bootup around dmalloc. 3G seems to work though. I read one
> having 12 G. My computer has about 20G total.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric