Thanks Karl Your instructions saved a lot of research.
Running funtoo linux -current with minimal kernel ( compiled by hand ) adjusted root partition to vda disk. Tests performed with OpenBSD 6.0 with binary patches applied . Cheers, 2017-04-26 13:47 GMT-03:00 Karl Pettersson <klpn1...@gmail.com>: > Arch Linux works well as a vmd guest. Some notes about my experiences > installing the system: > > * The Arch installation can be started from the serial console, see: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Working_with_the_serial_console > #Installing_Arch_Linux_using_the_serial_console > However, the installation still tends to be unstable, due to unreliable > downloads (which has been discussed earlier). Until this is fixed, the > installation can be run in QEMU, or in a guest under Linux/KVM (as is > currently required by distributions with graphical install). > > * Syslinux has to be used as bootloader, and serial console should be > enabled: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Serial_console > Moreover, the generated config has to be edited to point to the > correct root device, and if Ext4 is used as root file system, it must > not be 64bit (which is enabled by default when the file system is > created): http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Filesystem > >
