On 29/05/2020 23:56, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Oh that's a nice observation about `boot disk -V`. Doing so actually > got me booting up entirely: > > $ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 miniroot66.fs disk.qcow2 > $ qemu-img resize disk.qcow2 20G > $ qemu-system-sparc64 -m 1024 -drive file=disk.qcow2,if=ide -net > nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -boot a -nographic -monitor none -serial > stdio
I think the problem here is that you're asking OpenBIOS to boot from the (empty) floppy disk with "-boot a" rather than the qcow2 image which is normally attached to the first hard disk "-boot c". As this is the default, then I would expect the command line above to work if you simply drop "-boot a". Also is there a particular reason for using the ne2k_pci NIC instead of the default in-built sunhme device? I try and keep the documentation at https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC as accurate as I can, so do look there for latest best practices and command line examples. Finally the version of qemu-system-sparc64 you are running can also boot from a virtio-blk-pci device (again see the above wiki page for details) if you are looking for the best emulated disk performance. ATB, Mark.
