On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:32:42PM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on getting OS X to run on KVM, and the latest > q35-qemu tree from GitHub, plus additionally applied commit > 40862309a9d733cb0e878c79f477de003897b5d2 from mainline works > great, with the following command line: > > bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cpu core2duo \ > -M q35 -L seabios-mac/out -kernel ./chameleon_2.0_boot \ > -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \ > -device isa-applesmc,osk="..." \ > -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,drive=MacHDD \ > -drive id=MacHDD,if=none,snapshot=on,file=./mac_10.6.img > > > However, current mainline QEMU git master does not. I need a > slightly modified command line to even start (had to add > "-L share/qemu" as a fallback bios path to avoid "could not > open option rom ..." errors): > > bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cpu core2duo \ > -M q35 -L seabios-mac/out -L share/qemu -kernel ./chameleon_2.0_boot \ > -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \ > -device isa-applesmc,osk="..." \ > -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,drive=MacHDD \ > -drive id=MacHDD,if=none,snapshot=on,file=./mac_10.6.img > > This seems to be equivalent: > > bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cpu core2duo \ > -M q35 -bios bios-mac.bin -kernel ./chameleon_2.0_boot \ > -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse \ > -device isa-applesmc,osk="..." \ > -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,drive=MacHDD \ > -drive id=MacHDD,if=none,snapshot=on,file=./mac_10.6.img > > (I use the latest SeaBIOS git plus this patch: > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/seabios-mac-20121206.patch > for all examples, working *and* non-working). > > With mainline and -M q35, OS X gives me: > > "Waiting for boot volume with UUID ..." > > and > > "Still waiting for root device" > > I don't know if there's a way to do a bisect across the two different > trees, and I couldn't find a working "-M q35" state in mainline to begin > bisecting from there. I get the above errors immediately after commits > df2d8b3ed4d2b6406335d274f9537d78ac4e3c0c, > a1c9304683161a68c1fc1d9c3bc174ec8e26a61a, and > 21bcfdd9a43041720f9370831c694bcb2e11eea4 > where -M q35 was added to mainline... > > BTW, leaving out "-M q35" in mainline still seems to work fine (if I > explicitly add "-device ahci,id=ide" instead... > > Between the working GitHub -M q35 and the non-working mainline -M q35, > "dev: ich9-ahci" from "info qtree" looks identical, save for the > "dev: ide-drive" version under ide.0 (1.3.50 on github vs. 1.2.50 in > mainline). Not sure if that's even relevant... > > Any advice as to what else I could do to narrow it down further would be > appreciated ! > > Thanks, > --Gabriel
I think you are missing: -acpitable file=<seabios>/out/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml Thanks, -Jason
