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NetBSD on xhyve? #28

Closed davidchisnall closed 1 year ago

davidchisnall commented 1 year ago

It looks as if NetBSD 9.x supports UEFI boot on bhyve, is there a reason that it can't do the same on xhyve?

jacob-carlborg commented 1 year ago

I've tried installing NetBSD on xhyve, but for some reason it didn't work. I don't recall the exact details of why it didn't work.

But I do plan to support NetBSD on macOS runners using QEMU, that would allow hardware accelerated nested virtualization.

davidchisnall commented 1 year ago

From the link, it sounds as if putting this in /boot.cfg for NetBSD should let it work on xhyve:

menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;userconf disable xhci*;boot
jacob-carlborg commented 1 year ago

It fails to boot the installer. It doesn't get to the userconf shell. Nothing happens.

jacob-carlborg commented 1 year ago

@davidchisnall I've added support for NetBSD on macOS runners. It's using QEMU, not Xhyve, as the hypervisor but it uses hardware accelerated virtualization. Could you please give it a try with this commit: https://github.com/cross-platform-actions/action/commit/f3160be98978b352dc0622cd76ceda381ddbdb46.