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List:       openbsd-arm
Subject:    Re: Some patches to improve life with the Pinebook Pro
From:       "Paul W. Rankin" <hello () paulwrankin ! com>
Date:       2022-07-24 5:41:39
Message-ID: 534aa6273e1f5bbc00932f824161244c () purelymail ! com
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On 2022-07-20 01:47, Mike Larkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 01:39:45PM +1000, Paul W. Rankin wrote:
>> Otherwise, I speculate I could patch & compile a release using
>> qemu-system-aarch64 on my macOS system, however attempts at even 
>> getting an
>> OpenBSD guest system running have made me feel rather stupid -- if 
>> anyone
>> can point me toward any guide (the -h flag output is almost useless) I 
>> would
>> much appreciate it.
>> 
> 
> You will be waiting a long, long time for that to finish. But here you 
> go:
> 
> ulimit -d 8388608
> qemu-system-aarch64 \
>     -machine virt \
>     -smp 4 \
>     -m 4096m \
>     -cpu cortex-a72 \
>     -drive
> if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/local/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,readonly=on
> \
>     -hda install71.img \
>     -hdb openbsd-arm64.qcow2 \
>     -netdev user,id=usernet -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=usernet
> 
> use a disk based install from sd0->sd1 then make hda the .qcow2 file on 
> the
> next boot. You can make the .qcow2 with vmctl create or qemu-img.
> 
> This is going to be so ridiculously slow though, that you probably 
> would be
> better off buying a Raspberry Pi and building there (or better, Mac M1 
> with
> OpenBSD installed).

Big thanks Mike! Both for the guidance and appropriately tempering my 
expectations :)

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