The option -M q35 is needed when trying rumpdisk in qemu
---
hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn
index 33e37ff7..cd7d77e1 100644
--- a/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/rump/rumpdisk.mdwn
@@ -59,4 +59,13 @@ rumpdisk is normally already set up on `/dev/rumpdisk`.
$ showtrans /dev/rumpdisk
/hurd/rumpdisk
+If you are trying RumpDisk in qemu, please add the option `-M q35`.
+For example:
+
+ qemu-system-i386 -m 4G -enable-kvm -drive cache=writeback,file=hurd.img \
+ -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:22 \
+ -net nic,model=e1000 \
+ -display curses \
+ -M q35
+
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