Re: PVH boot with qemu

Emile `iMil' Heitor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 11 Dec 2023, Emile `iMil' Heitor wrote:

> We still need to check if we didn't break anything on Xen side and test
> Firecracker. FYI qemu-system-x86_64 also works with the "microvm"
> machine type.

I am able to boot this patched NetBSD kernel using Colin Percival's PVH-enabled
Firecracker https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/3155

Nevertheless, Firecracker, as the microvm qemu machine type, uses vioblk for
block devices, which we don't have. Yet.

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