KVM/QEMU and Freebsd 9.1 or later (Actually 10.0)

[Howard Leadmon]

  Not sure if you ever figured out anything on this one, but I am seeing the
exact same symptoms as you, and my configuration over here is:

 HP Proliant DL580-G5 w/4 hexacore Xeon E7450 processors and 32G RAM
 Host OS is CentOS 6.4 (kernel 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64)

 If I load FBSD 9, no problem, in fact I have 9.2 running ZFS quite well
currently, but as you mentioned, if I try and load 10.0-BETA3, it starts to
boot and just freezes, and I have tried it multiple times.   

 Not sure if there is anything I can do on boot that might help with this,
or if there is any way to help debug this issue, but it's for sure a change
in 10.0, as any older releases are just fine.



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Howard Leadmon 

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> I want to run FreeBSD 9.2 under KVM/QEMU, but this is not working due to
> CPU problems. There seems to be a bug somewhere reading the forums tell
> me the problem should be fixed on KVM/QEMU side. For some reason
> unknown
> to me release 9.0 works with my current setup.
> 
> Host information:
> 
> - Dell server with Intel Xeon E5345 "Clovertown" CPU
> - Ubuntu LTS 12.04.03
> - Linux kernel 3.2.0.55.65
> - KVM/QEMU released with 12.04 LTS (aka Precise).
> 
> Guest information
> 
> - FreeBSD 9.2
> 
> The problem is that booting freezes the virtual machine after 1 second
> during the boot stage, do not get any boot menu at all.
> 
> In forums i read that the problem was related to the features (sse4 etc)
> in the CPU type and model. I tried to change CPU from "core2duo" that
> was detected by KVM to something different but no luck.
> 
> Please help me out, what is the problem..and how to solve it?
> 
> Is this problem related to FreeBSD or KVM/QEMU? Why is it working with
> FreeBSD 9.0?
> 
> /Best Regards
> Magnus



  Not sure if you ever figured out anything on this one, but I am seeing the
exact same symptoms as you, and my configuration over here is:

 HP Proliant DL580-G5 w/4 hexacore Xeon E7450 processors and 32G RAM
 Host OS is CentOS 6.4 (kernel 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64)

 If I load FBSD 9, no problem, in fact I have 9.2 running ZFS quite well
currently, but as you mentioned, if I try and load 10.0-BETA3, it starts to
boot and just freezes, and I have tried it multiple times.   

 Not sure if there is anything I can do on boot that might help with this,
or if there is any way to help debug this issue, but it's for sure a change
in 10.0, as any older releases are just fine.



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Howard Leadmon