On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:57:20PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > It works under KVM.  I vaguely recall mpbios0 and acpmiadt0 need to be
> > disabled.
> 
> Then it doesn't work.
> 
> I've got this car, but the engine won't start.  But it works fine,
> because if some friends help me I can push it down the road.
> 
> We won't cripple OpenBSD just because the virtual machines out there
> are full of bugs.  It should be a warning to you.  How many of those
> bugs are holes?  Your assumption is that none are.  My assumption is
> that every single of them is some kind of hole.

OpenBSD 4.4 works under KVM without modification.

OpenBSD 4.5+ works if "mpbios" is disabled, more info here:
http://scie.nti.st/2009/10/4/running-openbsd-4-5-in-kvm-on-ubuntu-linux-9-04

I haven't tried 4.5+ under Ubuntu 9.10; perhaps the newer KVM or
upstream QEMU has fixed the bugs that make 4.5+ not work out of the
box.

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