FreeBSD on kvm

[Alessandro Baggi]

On 01/06/2012 12:50 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 1/6/12 11:43 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> i've a problem running freebsd as a guest on linux+kvm. The only problem
>> is that sometimes, when I boot the system it dies and this happens also
>> if I run the vm with and without -nographic option. Using the qemu GUI I
>> can see the it stops on the boot loader menu after the countdown and the
>> only mode to resume the system is reboot the vm. I've reduced the
>> autoboot delay to 1 without no result.
>>
>>
>> Someone know something about this problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> Hi,
>
>
> This is exactly how to *not* ask a question.
> Please take the time to read this very informative article:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
>
>
> For instance, you've omitted important information such as:
>
> - linux version
> - qemu version
> - freebsd version
> - freebsd error message when "it dies", if any
> - KVM configuration options (disk mode and such)
>
>
> We've been running FreeBSD 7 then 8 as a guest in Debian linux/KVM for
> over 3 years now for our pre-production environment and are very happy
> with it.
>
> Please post some more details, that we might be able to actually help.
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True, I'm sorry, too few informations.

The host system is Slackware64 Linux 13.37
QEMU emulator version 0.14.0 (qemu-kvm-0.14.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 
Fabrice Bellard
FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3



kvm option: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -pidfile $PIDFILE -cpu host -smp 
$NCPU -m $MRAM -k $KB -enable-kvm -drive 
file=$IMAGE,media=disk,index=0,cache=writeback -net 
nic,model=$NICMODEL,macaddr=$MAC -net 
tap,ifname=$TAP,script=no,downscript=no -runas $USER -monitor 
unix:$SOCKET,server,nowait -nographic -daemonize

There are not errors. When there is the countdown  it seems to die.For 
example it stops to 9 seconds or 6 and stop (die) No boot line, only the 
boot loader menu blocked. To avoid this
I want say that freebsd work very well under kvm, the problem is 
presented every 2/3 startup of this virtual machine.