Problem with KVM / FreeBSD Guest

[Aljoscha Vollmerhaus]

On 07/03/2013 12:36 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> For what is worth I have -CURRENT and 9-STABLE KVM guests on a centos
> 6.4 KVM host.
>
> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.0.1.el6.centos.5.x86_64
> libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.8.x86_64
> [root at nodule.namesco.net ~]# uname -a
> Linux nodule.unsane.co.uk 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 12
> 03:34:52 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My libvirt is at 1.0.5.2, forgot to mention that.
>
> So it certainly can work. I havent tested more than 4 CPUs that I can
> think of. Havent had to do anything special.
>
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> FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #1 r252202: Tue Jun 25 12:30:35 BST 2013
>      root at ipamtest.unsane.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
> CPU: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6) (2333.39-MHz K8-class CPU)
>    Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6d3  Family = 0x6  Model = 0xd
> Stepping = 3
>   
> Features=0x783f3fd<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
>    Features2=0x80002001<SSE3,CX16,HV>
>    AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
>    AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
When booted with a single cpu, it looks like this here:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P9xxx (Penryn Class Core 2) (2493.74-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x623  Family = 6  Model = 2 Stepping = 3
Features=0x1f83fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT>
   Features2=0x80082201<SSE3,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,HV>
   AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>

I used libvirts "copy host configuration" feature. (The CPUs are Xeon 
E5420, libvirt just seems to like to call them Core 2 Duo)
Translates into this command:

/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -name iscsitarget -S 
-machine pc-i440fx-1.4,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu 
Penryn,+dca,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme 
-m 512 -smp 1,maxcpus=2,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=1 -uuid 
d7a0c1ec-3446-5bb9-57eb-dc081b3c7ddb -no-user-config -nodefaults 
-chardev 
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/iscsitarget.monitor,server,nowait 
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc 
-no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive 
file=/dev/VMs/iscsitarget,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native 
-device 
ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 
-drive 
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/FreeBSD-9.1-STABLE-amd64-20130630-r252387-bootonly.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw 
-device 
ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=2 
-netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device 
e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:71:94:0f,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device 
isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:6 -vga cirrus 
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4

(sorry for the mess)

I have tried to manually set the cpu configuration to 1 socket, 2 cores, 
hoping this would fix it (shotgun debugging), but no luck.
I tried setting cpu to cpu64-rhel6 in libvirt, too - didn't help either.
> ACPI APIC Table: <BOCHS  BXPCAPIC>
At this point, the machine hangs for 1, 2sec when booting multi-cpu 
while with only one cpu, it goes straight on.
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 1 core(s)
>   cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>   cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> kbd1 at kbdmux0
> acpi0: <BOCHS BXPCRSDT> on motherboard
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71,0x72-0x77 irq 8 on acpi0
> Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
>
>
> Vince
A. V.