FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs qcow in QEMU

Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current
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New FreeBSD snapshots available: main (20260113 2b60e628d3b1)
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-snapshots/2026-January/000696.html>

On 13/01/2026 03:21, Colin Percival wrote:

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FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow

I can not boot from this file in QEMU.

<https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/115/911/456/995/267/785/original/c65131d5f2656d30.png> 
pictures the symptom.

On one hand: this may be lack of education. My first use of Virtual 
Machine Manager was only a few hours ago. 
<https://www.reddit.com/r/qemu_kvm/comments/1qg94mf/virtmanager_on_linux_how_to_use_edk2aarch64codefd/> 
seeks advice.

On the other hand: in a separate VM, I _can_ boot 16.0-CURRENT following 
a pkgbase major upgrade from 14.3.
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