Hi, I'm booting a NetBSD 9.0_RC1 VM in qemu (Linux host).
For various reasons (one being that qemu VGA rendering of text mode is crap), I need to boot the image over an emulated serial console: $ cat opt/bin/boot-netbsd-virtio #!/bin/sh qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive if=virtio,file=/home/oc/VM/img/netbsd.image,index=0,media=disk \ -M q35,accel=kvm -m 400M -cpu host -smp $(nproc) \ -nic user,hostfwd=tcp::6665-:22,model=virtio-net-pci,ipv6=off -nographic In the guest, I have: $ cat /boot.cfg menu=Boot Serial:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;consdev com0;boot netbsd menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd menu=Boot single user:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -s menu=Disable ACPI:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -2 menu=Disable ACPI and SMP:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -12 menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt default=1 timeout=5 clear=1 I can see the boot menu if I boot in VGA mode, but not over serial console. The system boots fine; I just can't select any other option. Is there anything I can do or is it a limitation of how NetBSD sees serial consoles? As a term of comparison, I have a similar setup for a FreeBSD guest and I can indeed see the FreeBSD boot menu. Thanks -- Ottavio Caruso
