Hi Marc,

 Thank you for taking a look. I was able to finally
run openbsd by converting the install72.img to
a qcow2 image using qemu-convert tool. After that,
install and run openbsd was standard procedure.


On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 4:08 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:33:35 +0000,
> Sandeep Gupta <gupta.sandeep@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to run openbsd as guest OS.
> > I am using this command to create the vm
> > ```
> >
> > virt-install --name openbsd1 --ram 2048 --vcpus 2 --disk
> >
> path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/openbsd1.qcow2,format=qcow2,bus=virtio,size=20
> >  --disk path=/tmp/install72.img --import --os-variant openbsd7.0
> > --network=default --noautoconsole
> >
> > ```
> > But, on boot the server is not picking up the openbsd boot sequence.
>
> I don't think this is directly related to KVM. I've been pretty
> successful in running OpenBSD 7.0 on a variety of hosts. Not using
> libvirt though, but directly using QEMU.
>
> One thing you may want to do is to disable ACPI by pasing -no-acpi to
> QEMU.
>
> But overall, this is a question better asked on some libvirt forum.
>
>         M.
>
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