Here are my notes from installation. I used these resources: NetBSD on a Mac Mini, Notes from installing on a G4 Mac Mini and the INSTALL.html from the ISO.
I will clean these up shortly (hopefully.)
Here's my configure line:
# didn't include pcre because I don't need them yet, but might at some stage...
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx --without-pcre --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_dav_module --without-http_rewrite_module --with-ld-opt="-static -static-libgcc"
Version: 0.7.61
I've tried fink and macports but found both of them very broken at some stages. They have quite recent ports in them though which is good... but not good enough when you look at how frequently they fell over.
It turns out the NetBSD port tree (pkgsrc) can be used on Mac OS X!
This page describes the process you need to install it.
Very nice!
My host is Mac OS X, and my guest is a NetBSD VM running on the host. This will show you how I forward X apps from guest to the host.
On Mac OS X you can install X11 from the OS install disk that came with your computer.
On Mac OS X, start /Applications/X11.app
In the xterm that was opened up on Mac:
host$ xauth list
YourBox.local/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 dfa82d25b775957b7571f76727e51f3c
10.1.1.2:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 dfa82d25b775957b7571f76727e51f3c
We are interested in the one that does not have "unix" in it, i.e. the second line. Copy this line, we will be using it below. (The above is an example, yours will look different.)
guest$ grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config
X11Forwarding yes
... change if it's not enabled, and remember to restart sshd.
host$ ssh -X guest
... the X flag enables X11Forwarding over this ssh connection.
guest$ export DISPLAY=10.1.1.2:0 # use the IP:Number combination that you got from xauth list
guest$ xauth add 10.1.1.2:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 dfa82d25b775957b7571f76727e51f3c
guest$ xlogo
... and watch it appear on your host.
To setup mdns on NetBSD you need to:
... the package net/mDNSResponder-nss (which also installs net/mDNSResponder)
... the daemon, mdnsd
... the /etc/nsswitch.conf file - just put the text mdns on the hosts line, between files and dns
... an rc script /etc/rc.d/mdnsd - or (naughty, naughty!) just add a line to /etc/rc.local that starts the mdnsd daemon.
... and the new NetBSD VM is working. pkgsrc is the packages system for NetBSD. If you are looking for mod_perl it is in www/ap2-perl. pkgsrc has a cool feature with sysutils/open-vm-tools being their port of VMWare tools. So you can just:
# cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/open-vm-tools
# make && make install
... instead of installing the VMWare tools normally by mounting the fake CD image. NetBSD isn't officially supported by VMWare anyway, though they reckon the normal tools will work if you pretend it is a FreeBSD system and have FreeBSD emulation on.
Here is an XF86Config that I stole from somewhere (see the comments section, thanks guy.) It works great for the MacBook:
# xorg.conf to get OpenBSD 4.4-beta (2008/07/11 18:54 snapshot) to display the
# screen at 1280x800 resolution on VMware Fusion 1.1.3 on a late 2007 MacBook
# running Mac OS X 10.5.4
#
# Modified from http://blog.durables.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/xorgconf.txt
# Context: http://blog.durables.org/2007/03/02/vmware-fusion-beta-2-is-out/
#
# MacBook refresh rates and 1280x800 modeline from:
# http://rubenerdshow.com/blog/x11-freebsd-parallels/
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "vmware"
VendorName "VMWare, Inc"
ModelName "Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Modeline "1280x800" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "vmware"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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