Just to drop a note for someone who might search for this topic in future. I was wrong from the start. Instead of looking for emulation and/or cross-compiling that is far beyond my reach, I should be simply following -current on octeon. I believe it should be possible to keep the main/only firewall router behind the ADSL modem/router working in bridge mode updated.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:50 PM, soko.tica <soko.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks for your reply that it isn't possible, I was about to spend > many more hours banging the head against the wall. > > I guess the only solution for my goal is to learn cross-compiling and > build -stable sets for octeon on amd64. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:09 PM, <mail+li...@m.jwh.me.uk> wrote: > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On >> > Behalf Of soko.tica >> > Sent: 09 September 2016 11:09 >> > To: misc <misc@openbsd.org> >> > Subject: Install octeon on Qemu question(s) >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am unsucesfully trying to install octeon on Qemu (I have managed to >> > install it on Ubiquity edge router Lite, but I need a qemu guest for >> > updating the router as needed). >> > >> > After much trouble, i have managed to alter miniroot for booting via >> > serial, if that was needed at all. >> > === >> > # vnconfig vnd0 >> > miniroot60.fs >> > # mount /dev/vnd0i /mnt >> > # ls -lh /mnt >> > total 16672 >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8.1M Jul 29 08:32 bsd.rd >> > # mkdir /mnt/etc >> > # echo 'set tty >> > com0'>/mnt/etc/boot.conf >> > # umount /mnt >> > # vnconfig -u vnd0 >> > === >> > I'm trying to install miniroot.fs according to the instructions from >> > /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/qemu, but I am always getting the >> errors >> > I >> > don't understand, e.g.: >> > === >> > $ qemu-system-mips64 -m 512 -serial stdio -hda octeon.img -hdb >> > miniroot60.fs -> >> > WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'miniroot60.fs' and probing >> > guessed raw. >> > Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, >> > write operations on block 0 will be restricted. >> > Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. >> > qemu-system-mips64: Could not load MIPS bios 'mips_bios.bin', and no >> > -kernel argument was specified >> > $ qemu-system-mips64 -m 512 -serial stdio -hda octeon.img format=raw - >> > hdb >> > miniroot60< >> > qemu-system-mips64: -hda octeon.img: drive with bus=0, unit=0 (index=0) >> > exists >> > === >> > >> > Please point to what should I do to accomplish it, I have already wasted >> > too much time on it. >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> >> You can't emulate Octeon with QEMU. You also need more than that to >> emulate >> a MIPS64 board, it isn't x86.
