What host OS? Linux is more straightforward than macOS. For macOS, the trick (at least for me) was the right incantation of the netdev and/or nic. This link was helpful: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/465
Anyhow, on macos this is what I use; as usual the MAC address ties things together in /lib/ndb/local and /cfg/pxe. sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=hvf -nic vmnet-bridged,isolated=on,ifname=en1,mac=52:55:00:12:34:56 -m 2048 -vga std -boot n On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote: > > Do you (or anyone else) have a recipe for getting qemu to do a real netboot > (as opposed to using a tiny partition to store a 9fat and netbooting from > that)? I have tried and haven’t been able to work it out. > > > On Jan 14, 2025, at 15:54, Ori Bernstein <o...@orib.dev> wrote: > > > > Netbooting is comfortable for this -- both on emulation and on real > > hardware. > > > >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:08:51 -0800 > >> Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Your email is timely. > >> Yes, I just got enough init going to realize that it doesn't set up the MP > >> tables. > >> No now I need to figure out a flow with qemu, I guess. > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 3:07 p.m. Stuart Morrow <morrow.stu...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Are you aware vmx is inherently single-core > >>> > >>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 18:01, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Credit where credit is due: this is made possible by the outstanding > >>> work the 9front crew have done at making a stable working distribution > >>> with > >>> all the bells and whistles - drawterm from my various desktop and mobile > >>> devices, git for revision management, vmx for testing, and an encouraging > >>> and useful IRC channel. > >>>> > >>>> I haven't written code properly in a plan9 environment for 20 years, and > >>> this is very pleasant. > >>>> > >>>> Thank you all! > >>>> > >>>> Paul > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 11:53 p.m. Ron Minnich <rminn...@p9f.org> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Paul has taken us a whole lot further. Be sure to do a pull. 13,000 or > >>>>> so removed files later, NIX is now just a small layer over a standard > >>>>> 9front distro. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM Ron Minnich <rminn...@p9f.org> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM <tlaro...@kergis.com> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Note: I will work for sure some hours on it on week-ends, mainly on > >>>>>>> Sundays. I may happen to work on it supplementary to that when time > >>>>>>> permits---or because I'm bored at what I'm doing currently. So > >>> silence > >>>>>>> from me for days will not be a sign that I dropped the ball and if > >>>>>>> someone beats me at what I was planning to do, I will simply take > >>> the next > >>>>>>> "reachable" (for me) problem remaining. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> That's precisely what I was hoping to hear. You just defined a > >>>>>> sustainable model for contributing. > >>>> > >>>> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options > >>> Permalink > > > > > > -- > > Ori Bernstein <o...@eigenstate.org> ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ted30b22de106b2db-Me11ef1d53fa9a8ab66690dae Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
