[fbsd] Running a FreeBSD guest with qemu on a FreeBSD host

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:43:44PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Please Cc: me in your replies.)
> 
> I'm trying to run TinyBSD in Qemu, using the -nographic mode.  Thus
> I need to configure FreeBSD to use a serial console.
> 
> % # cat /mnt/md/boot.config 
> % -h
> % # cat /mnt/md/boot/loader.conf 
> % console="comconsole"
> % boot_serial="YES"
> 
> 
> When I run Qemu with this command:
> % qemu -hda tinybsd.img -m 64 -nographic -serial telnet:127.0.0.1:1234,server
> 
> I get the following output, when telnet(1)'ing to 127.0.0.1:1234:
> % Trying 127.0.0.1...
> % Connected to localhost.
> % Escape character is '^]'.
> % /boot.config: -hConsoles: serial port
> % BIOS drive C: is disk0
> % BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory
> % 
> % FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> % (root at jarjarbinks.octobre.int, Fri Oct 20 22:23:14 UTC 2006)
> % Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> % /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x337d74 data=0x357c4+0x3125c syms=[0x4+0x42d60+0x4+0x5527d]
> % can't open '/boot/beastie.4th': no such file or directory
> % 
> % -
> % Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> % Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> % -
> 
> And the output stalls here.  Any idea what's happening ?  Does the kernel
> switch back console to vga ?

Maybe because the kernel didn't have sio(4) ?
Sorry for the noise.

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >