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

[Neel Natu]

Hi Alfred,

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
> On 3/15/13 8:03 PM, Neel Natu wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>
> Yes, it is a bootonly image.  Using the virtio-net seems to cause the
> machine to go sidewise relatively quickly.
>

This should be fixed with r248368:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=248368

best
Neel

> thank you,
> -Alfred