On 2009/08/03 10:34, Brad wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2009 10:25:44 Nikolay Sturm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just for the record, in order for OpenBSD to run as a guest system in > > Linux KVM (I tried with OpenBSD -current/amd64 in an Ubuntu jaunty > > 9.04/amd64) > > - change the emulated interface to e1000, otherwise you get re(4) > > watchdog timeouts > > - remove the sound device from the vm, otherwise my linux machine kind > > of freezes > > - disable mpbios in OpenBSD, otherwise OpenBSD freezes after mounting > > its disks > > > > That's it, so far it works like a charm. > > Heh. That's a pretty broken environment provided by KVM. > > Why would you be using MPBIOS? KVM (QEMU) provides ACPI.
I would take a guess that it's emulating a single CPU with SMBIOS earlier than 2.40, in which case the heuristics in bios.c would apply.
