Hmm, couldn’t get the noapic option to work. Not blaming nvmm in any way - it’s quite a piece of work and very impressive!
I did get the LinuxMint DVD to boot under nvmm by selecting the “Compatibility boot option” in the LinuxMint menu. On Oct 8, 2019, at 4:15 PM, Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> wrote: > Once you get a grub menu, you need to specify 'noapic'. > > Linux runs aggressive hw checks that fail under hypervisors (NVMM is not > to be blamed). > > The right solution is to patch the Linux kernel and disable the checks > for NVMM and HAXM. > > On 08.10.2019 18:20, Robert Nestor wrote: >> Thanks! I tried adding “-no-acpi” to the QEMU command line and that >> eliminated the messages from QEMU, but the Linux installer still failed. I >> then tried using “-append noacpi” on the QEMU command line, but that is only >> available with one also uses “-kernel”. So I guess one can’t boot an >> installation CD this way. >> >> >> On Oct 8, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> wrote: >> >>> On 08.10.2019 16:31, Robert Nestor wrote: >>>> Playing with nvmm in an Oct 9 NetBSD 9.0 build. Sucessfully installed >>>> a version of NetBSD 8.0 but ran into problems tryuing to install a >>>> LinuxMint 19.2 64-bit system. Nvmm throws these errors: >>>> >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x1c9 [val=0x3], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x1c9 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x1a6 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x1a6 [val=0x11], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x1a6 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x1a7 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x1a7 [val=0x11], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x1a7 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x3f6 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x3f6 [val=0x11], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x3f6 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x186 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x187 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x188 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x189 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x38d [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0xc4 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0xc4 [val=0xffff], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0xc4 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x140 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0xce [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected WRMSR 0x140 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> qemu-system-x86_64: NVMM: Unexpected RDMSR 0x34 [val=0x0], ignored >>>> >>>> And the Linux installer panics. >>>> >>>> Qemu was invoked with: >>>> >>>> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 -accel nvmm -cdrom >>>> /home/linuxmint-19.2-xfce-64bit.iso -name "LinuxMint-19.2 Install" -smp 2 >>>> -netdev tap,id=nd0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -device >>>> rtl8139,netdev=nd0 -drive >>>> file=/home/LinuxMint-19.2.dsk,media=disk,format=raw >>>> >>>> Any ideas, or am I missing some important qmeu option here? NetBSD runs >>>> fine with this set of options in qemu. >>>> >>> >>> Ignore the warnigs and set 'noapic' on boot in the bootloader. >>> >> > >