Fwd: kldload vmm partial lockup

[Aryeh Friedman]

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From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: kldload vmm partial lockup
To: Thomas Hoffmann <trh411 at gmail.com>


You should see the proposed handbook entry on virtualization (
http://www.petitecloud.org/handbook.jsp) for more info... note to the list
Dee will be doing some additional proofing of this soon and we will submit
again


On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Thomas Hoffmann <trh411 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Hoffmann <trh411 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Joe Maloney <jpm820 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I’ve been trying to get bhyve to work on a system with the following
> >> specs:
> >>
> >> FreeBSD 10.0 64 bit
> >> ASUS P6T Deluxe
> >> Intel i7 920
> >>
> >> According to what I’ve researched my cpu should have the VT-D
> extensions.
> >>  However many users of this motherboard have complained about ASUS not
> >> properly supporting VT-D with Xen and something about a problem with
> tables
> >> getting corrupt due to a problem with the bios.  On the third link below
> >> which is the Xen wiki it even states that this motherboard needs a bios
> >> update which is not available to the public.
> >>
> >> https://communities.intel.com/thread/28389
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090402224408018&SLanguage=en-us&board_id=1
> >>
> >> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo
> >>
> >> I am curious though if this would be what would be causing my problem
> >> with bhyve?  I suppose I am willing to just by a new motherboard if so.
> >>
> >> I can run kldload vmm and I see a bunch of text fly by and then
> something
> >> about uhci interrupt problem.  As soon as that happens the messages
> repeats
> >> my network drops and no keyboard input.  However the message repeats
> and it
> >> doesn’t appear that the system has fully locked up otherwise.  However
> on
> >> another system that works I notice that kldload VMM does not show this
> >> information it just loads the module.
> >>
> >> Is there a way I can gather more logs somehow so that I can determine
> >> what text is appearing before the uhci errors?  Perhaps some kind of
> dump
> >> procedure?  Or is there a way I can confirm that freebsd can properly
> see
> >> and utilize the VT-D extensions.  VirtualBox runs fine with the VT
> >> extensions enabled.  I also made sure VirtualBox wasn’t installed or
> loaded
> >> before I tried bhyve.  I’ve tried to research for a week or two before
> >> posting here.
> >>
> >> Joe Maloney
> >>
> >
> > According to this, your processor supports VT-x, but not VT-d ;
> >
> http://ark.intel.com/products/37147/Intel-Core-i7-920-Processor-8M-Cache-2_66-ghz-4_80-gts-Intel-qpi
> >
> > -Tom
> >
>
> But this i7-920 processor does:
>
> http://ark.intel.com/products/43126/Intel-Core-i7-920XM-Processor-Extreme-Edition-8M-Cache-2_00-GHz
>
> Not sure which you have.
>
> -Tom
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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org



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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org