[[!meta title="NetBSD/hppa under QEMU"]]

This page attempts to document running NetBSD/hppa under the
[QEMU](http://www.qemu.org/) 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](https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/images/NetBSD-9.1_STABLE-hppa.iso)

# 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