This page attempts to document running NetBSD/hppa under the QEMU open source processor emulator. This can be extremely useful for development and testing.

Requirements

• mainstream qemu 5.2.0 or higher
• pkgsrc qemu 4.0.0nb2 or higher
• ISO image
  • NetBSD 9.x hppa

Installing QEMU on NetBSD

You can install latest qemu with the following commands. It is assumed that your pkgsrc tree is in /usr/pkgsrc directory.

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/qemu
# make install

Creating a disk image

qemu-img create -f qcow2 hdd.img 2G         # change size

Booting the system from ISO image for install

$ qemu-system-hppa \
   -drive file=hdd.img \
   -drive file=NetBSD-9.1_STABLE-hppa.iso,media=cdrom \
   -boot order=d \
   -nographic

Booting the system post install

$ qemu-system-hppa \
   -drive file=hdd.img \
   -drive file=NetBSD-9.1_STABLE-hppa.iso,media=cdrom \
   -nographic