Kernel Panic on FreeBSD guests with libvirt 1.2.2 and qemu 1.7.91

[Andre Goree]

On 05/02/2014 2:18 pm, Juergen Lock wrote:
> In article <201405021800.s42I0TiE094542 at enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> you 
> write:
>> In article 
>> <f946e633356b1161c0d43217f59893b9-62Z4ZxnHd7CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> 
>> you write:
>>> On 05/01/2014 11:00 am, Andre Goree wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running libvirt 1.2.2 and QEMU 1.7.91 on an Ubuntu 12.04LTS 
>>>> host.
>>>> Prior to a recent upgrade, I've been able to run FreeBSD guests 
>>>> (both
>>>> 10.0 and 9.2) perfectly fine without issue.  Now, this the
>>>> aforementioned versions, I'm running into a kernel panic almost
>>>> immediately after booting, same message with both 10.0 & 9.2:  
>>>> "Fatal
>>>> trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode".
>>>> 
>>>> To ensure that it had nothing to do with my configuration [of the
>>>> guest OS] I've tried installing the guest from guest using
>>>> virt-install, however I still run into the same kernel panic.  It'll
>>>> be hard for me to post the output of the panic, so I'll try to show 
>>>> as
>>>> much info as possible via images[1].
>>>> 
>>>> Upon researching, I've come across a few threads (e.g., this one[2])
>>>> that appear to be related, but none have helped.  Any information 
>>>> that
>>>> you can provide to help me get to the root of this issue would be
>>>> greatly appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> [1]http://www.drenet.net/images/panic1.png
>>>> http://www.drenet.net/images/panic2.png
>>>> http://www.drenet.net/images/panic_noacpi1.png
>>>> http://www.drenet.net/images/panic_noacpi2.png
>>>> 
>>>> [2]http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=36761
>>> 
>>> 
>>> After using my noggin a bit, I've determine the culprit to be atkbd.  
>>> If
>>> I disable it via the bootloader with "set hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1", 
>>> the
>>> vm will boot fine.  HOWEVER, my problem then is that I cannot use the
>>> keyboard via VNC.  I'm trying to figure out ways around this...any 
>>> help
>>> would be much appreciated.  I've already tried setting different 
>>> flags
>>> for atkbd, but no matter which flag I set, I get the kernel panic --
>>> ostensibly because atkbd is enabled (as it must be for a flag to be 
>>> set
>>> for it).
>>> 
>> I think you have hit this issue for which the workaround is a patch
>> to seabios:
>> 
>> 	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug
>> 
> Hm for some reason that link got truncated, try this one:
> 
> 	https://bugs.debian.org/737142
> 
>> 	http://git.qemu.org/?p=seabios.git;a=commit;h=8032b8a0fec550de5cb2f7d37aa031cebc2200c3
>> 
>> References:
>> 
>> 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/254414/
>> 
>> 	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2013-03/msg00037.html
>> 
> 
> 	Juergen
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Lol, yeah, I was gonna say...but thanks!  Not sure if I'm into 
implementing a patch vs. finding a way around this, and I'm wondering 
why it reared it's head after an update to libvirt & qemu vs. earlier in 
my testing -- makes me think it may be an unrelated, albeit similar bug. 
  Thanks again Juergen.


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