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

[Chris Townley]

On 20/04/2023 17:11, issinoho wrote:
> 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)

Much easier in the GUI, bit it needs too many tweaks.

A bridge network is pretty easy to set up. I have a second NIC (USB) 
that I have bridged to. Setup took me a while, but when I recreated my 
KVM/QEMU VM I got it working fine just by selecting Bridged, and 
choosing the br0 device I had previously created.

Sadly I didn't note the exact way I created a br0 device on the host, 
but plenty of examples on the net.

Have you managed to get he serial console accessible over ssh? So far I 
have been stuck with the Virtual Machine builder serial console, which 
is pretty carp.

-- 
Chris