[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86 and qemu/kvm - boot problems.

[issinoho]

On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 at 16:51:58 UTC+1, Dennis Boone wrote:
> > It crashed during booting. I got two error messages said unable determine 
> > serial number in HWPB block and bug check message said that high IPL during 
> > pagefault exception. I think that I got wrong UEFI firmware from 
> > /usr/share/qemu. Does anyone have good UEFI firmware?
> I have 2022.11-6 of the ovmf package and qemu 7.2.on a Debian Sid box. 
> 
> ozymandias 1643 # sha256sum /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd 
> d996e65015d52ad21ec4014c4f6f80038dbfd63463106e39eb66b81282ab8dbf /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd 
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2097152 mar 5 15:36 OVMF.fd 
> 
> Make sure you're not trying to boot in secure mode. 
> 
> I get the serial number message too, but it doesn't seem to prevent 
> booting and installation. 
> 
> I can reliably induce a crash (high IPL, page fault) by trying to 
> mount the ISO image. I'm also getting random crashes I haven't 
> diagnosed yet. I.e. ymmv. 
> 
> De
Today I've finally got this working on QEMU/KVM using the virt-manager GUI rather than an enormous command line of switches. Everything work perfectly, albeit I'm running in NAT mode. Bridging looks to be a world of pain so I'm next going to look at NAT forwarding through the Ubuntu host - will report back.

X86VMS::sh cpu

System: X86VMS, QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)