NetBSD on xhyve?

[davidchisnall]

It looks as if NetBSD 9.x supports UEFI boot on bhyve, is there a reason that it can't do the same on xhyve?

[jacob-carlborg]

I've tried installing NetBSD on xhyve, but for some reason it didn't work. I don't recall the exact details of why it didn't work.

But I do plan to support NetBSD on macOS runners using QEMU, that would allow hardware accelerated nested virtualization.

[davidchisnall]

From the link, it sounds as if putting this in /boot.cfg for NetBSD should let it work on xhyve:

menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;userconf disable xhci*;boot

[jacob-carlborg]

It fails to boot the installer. It doesn't get to the userconf shell. Nothing happens.

[jacob-carlborg]

@davidchisnall I've added support for NetBSD on macOS runners. It's using QEMU, not Xhyve, as the hypervisor but it uses hardware accelerated virtualization. Could you please give it a try with this commit: f3160be.