[aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts

I guess I'll have to look into that more as well. I just looked at mips
emulation on the NetBSD site and while qemu was also used for some
things, that crowd seemed to lean more towards gxemul for emulating a
Qube. At least, Qubes running NetBSD. I'll try almost anything once
though.

My intended goal at the moment though is to see if I can't get something
resembling useful work out of an old Qube, not to tinker w/ emulators.
That part is just a means to an end. I believe I've pretty well seen
that I'm not going to get the Qube there without at least a small
increase in available resources.

Maybe I'll look at tinkering more with emulators later.

Just out of curiosity, what's weird? Using gxemul as opposed to qemu? I
really don't follow emulators enough to appreciate the difference. I've
been using Virtualbox because it was convenient and was relatively easy
for what I was doing. They aren't something I normally use 'hard core'
like you guys that are IT administrators. I'm just a hobbyist/tinkerer.

Jim G

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:31 -0800, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Um.. weird.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leif Sawyer
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:20 AM
> > To: 'jimgribbin@gmail.com'; Shane Spencer
> > Cc: aklug
> > Subject: RE: [aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts
> >
> > libvirt and qemu are pretty awesome together.
> >
> > I've got multiple x86(32/64) systems and a armel system all
> > running on a single x86_64 host with plenty of headroom to spare.
> >
> > libvirt and the virtual manager gui make it pretty easy to
> > add new machines without having to remember the qemu cli
> > syntax. Only very rarely do I have to edit the libvirt XML
> > to add custom changes, like the fairly newish vlantap interfaces.
> >
> > looks like qemu MALTA machine would be the correct version
> > for the mips emulation for you, which means you should be good to go.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org
> > [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
> > > Of Jim Gribbin
> > > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:28 PM
> > > To: Shane Spencer
> > > Cc: aklug
> > > Subject: [aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts
> > >
> > >
> > > > qemu-system-mips
> > >
> > > I hadn't thought of that. Actually, I did look to see if Virtualbox
> > > would emulate a mips, but it doesn't. I should have kept looking.
> > >
> > > I looked at the NetBSD site. The recommendation there is
> > gxemul. It's
> > > original function seems to have been to emulate a mips box that a
> > > complete install of BSDs & other Unix-like OSs can be put on. They
> > > even have a section on emulating a Cobalt Qube.
> > >
> > > http://gxemul.sourceforge.net/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html
> > #netbsdcobaltinstall
> > >
> > > What I'm looking to do at this point is not so much to boot
> > the drive
> > > out of the Qube on something else and see if it works. I think I
> > > learned enough from my side-by-side comparison that I'm
> > confident my
> > > current issue is not enough memory.
> > >
> > > What would be nice is that once I actually have a box that
> > approaches
> > > being useful would be having NetBSD running in a mips emulator for
> > > checking out how putting more stuff on it will affect things or
> > > figuring out what I need to do to properly install
> > 'whatever' without
> > > breaking the production box. There also happens to be an available
> > > package for Fedora.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
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