[crc_]

I'm not well versed in qemu's various options. When I didn't specify a BIOS image, it seems to be using SeaBIOS, not UEFI, and hangs on "Booting from Hard Disk...". I should be able to start doing proper videos soon; I've been slowly working towards that.

I can say that the display & overall performance is noticeably faster on the two actual computers I tested on than under qemu on my Linux system.

[maxdamantus]

> I can say that the display & overall performance is noticeably faster on the two actual computers I tested on than under qemu on my Linux system.

You'd probably want to use `-enable-kvm` so it's not doing full software emulation. Assuming you're running this on another x86-64 machine.

[crc_]

Thanks; I'll start doing that when running on Linux. (I had missed this, as my main dev box is running OpenBSD which doesn't have kvm)

[deivid]

you probably should set the serial port speed

[kragen]

Oh, I didn't realize -nographic was using a serial port. That's probably why it's slow!

[kragen]

Thanks!

It makes sense that it would default to using SeaBIOS; QEMU has a lot of options whose defaults were more reasonable 20 years ago.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

This is a minor pet peeve of mine, actually. I would understand if qemu defaulted to BIOS booting, though I'd prefer that it try UEFI then fall back to BIOS/CSM at this point, but it's actively difficult to do UEFI on qemu; you have to actively feed it the ROM by path, and last I tried you had to include a -pflash for writable storage even if you weren't doing anything with it (thankfully this appears to have been fixed). I really wish they just let you do something like -boot-firmware=uefi,bios or such. (And again, in 2025 I really think UEFI should just be the default, with fallback to CSM/BIOS for backwards compat)