I'd like to run NetBSD on laptops, but lack of support for 2 things - Wifi and touchpad have always kept me from doing so.
With virtualization support in most laptop processors, it is possible to run NetBSD as a guest OS, without must loss of performance, to work around the above issues. So, what can be done to make the guest look as much host as possible - i.e. to make it feel like NetBSD, to the extent possible. E.g. We can possibly configure Linux to auto-login to a user and start X11 automatically with qemu as X client. (Or any other way to get NetBSD login prompt directly?) Would audio and video playbacks work with near native performance and what qemu options would be needed for that? At present I am experimenting with such setup. But haven't managed to get things right as yet. E.g. - once I say startx on the qemu guest, the geometry of the X session doesn't match that of the host. Takes some manual adjustments to make it fit the screen. - haven't been able to pass audio device to qemu as yet - firefox SEGVs on the guest, may be a sign of display related issues etc. Any help or advice in this regard will be really useful. -- Mayuresh
