Re: NetBSD vs. VirtualBox

At Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:31:50 +0000 (UTC), RVP <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. VirtualBox
> 
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2026, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > Also, BTW, I see in the NetBSD Guide, in the chapter on virtualization,
> > that the vesa command should work in /boot.cfg.  However I can't get
> > this to work, no matter what form of argument I give it, and no matter
> > where I put it in /boot.cfg.  Indeed even a "vesa list" command in
> > /boot.cfg doesn't seem to do anything either.  I can't get the "gop"
> > command to work from /boot.cfg in my UEFI-booting UTM/QEMU VM either.
> > 
> 
> `vesa' and `gop' have to go into a `menu=' line, like this:
> 
> ```
> menu=Boot normally:gop 0;boot

Well, duh!  I should have known this, having written lots of /boot.cfg
entries for Xen dom0 systems, but it's been a while since I had my head
in any of the bootloader stuff.

Sadly the only example I saw, in the NetBSD Guide (30.4.4. Changing the
console resolution in an x86 VM), was incomplete, showing only the
raw bootloader command, and not also a complete menu entry for /boot.cfg
in a way that would have jogged my memory.

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