On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:12:14 -0800 Ryan Freeman <r...@slipgate.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:02:10PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > > Here is an update to QEMU 1.0.1. > > works here on i386-current (rthreads AND vmmap patches) > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8.6M Mar 5 16:33 /bsd* > > > qemu-system-i386 \ > -m 512 \ > -hda ./openbsd.qcow2 \ > -vga vmware \ > -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139 \ > $@ > Based on what worked for Ryan, I tried with -m 512 instead of -m 1300. Now I can install and run OpenBSD 5.0 i386 (release). Qemu used to be able to run on my computer with -m 1300, but apparently not anymore. 512M is enough, anyway. Full command that worked to install: $ qemu-system-i386 -m 512 -no-acpi -monitor stdio -no-fd-bootchk -hda openbsd.img -cdrom install50.iso -boot d And then to boot: $ qemu-system-i386 -m 512 -no-acpi -no-fd-bootchk -hda openbsd.img qemu-system-x86_64 also works with -m 512, both to install OpenBSD i386 iso, and then to run afterwards. OpenSUSE will still not run, even with -m 512 (or -m 800 which I tried as well). It was pretty sluggish through qemu anyway, so no big loss. In case anyone cares, it was stalling after the kernel loaded (the popup box with "kernel loading" message, before dmesg came up), with terminal message "MP-BIOS bug 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC." Brett.
