bhyve in -current 4/14/13 can no longer support FreeBSD stable install

[Neel Natu]

Hi Alfred,

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've been trying to get bhyve to install FreeBSD-stable for the past day on
> a -current machine:
>
> FreeBSD dan 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r248291: Fri Mar 15
> 00:58:03 PDT 2013     root at dan:/usr/obj/usr/trees/head/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
>
> The stable snapshot I'm using to install is from here:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/FreeBSD-9.1-STABLE-amd64-20130216-r246877-bootonly.iso
>
> What will happen is during the extract process the install will hang.  No
> network IO happens and on the host I see bhyve's CPU hit 100% for each core
> assigned.
>

Are you installing over the virtio-net interface?

best
Neel

> For reference this is the bhyve command invoked via Neel's "vmrun.sh".
>
>     0 3915 3908   0 103  0 2122208 103428 -        R+    2 1048:45.75
> /usr/sbin/bhyve -c 2 -m 2048 -M 0 -AI -H -P -g 0 -s 0:0,hostbridge -s
> 1:0,virtio-net,tap0 -s 2:0,virtio-blk,../freebsd-stable.img -s
> 3:0,virtio-blk,../FreeBSD-9.1-STABLE-amd64-20130216-r246877-bootonly.iso -S
> 31,uart,stdio freebsd-stable
>
> I tried to gdb the bhyve process but that was bad news.  Is there a set of
> steps usually taken to help pinpoint what is going on when we this state?
>
> thank you,
> -Alfred
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