Kernel Panic on FreeBSD guests with libvirt 1.2.2 and qemu 1.7.91

[Andre Goree]

On 05/02/2014 3:51 pm, Andre Goree wrote:
> On 05/02/2014 3:42 pm, Andre Goree wrote:
>> 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:
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 	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.
> 
> Btw, from the link you posted:
> 
> "From: Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru>
> To: 737142-close at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#737142: fixed in seabios 1.7.4-4
> Source: seabios
> Source-Version: 1.7.4-4
> 
> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
> seabios, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive."
> 
> and on my host server having the issue:
> "# dpkg -l |grep seabio
> ii  seabios                          1.7.4-4~cloud0
>          Legacy BIOS implementation"
> 
> I'll try to determine which version of seabios I had running initially
> before the issue, however from what I can tell, an upgrade to the
> version that _should_ have fixed this appears be what caused my issue
> in the first place, heh.

Oddly enough, after downgrading seabios to version 1.7.3, I'm able to 
boot FreeBSD on the Ubuntu hosts without issue.  I downgraded like so:

apt-get install seabios=1.7.3-1ubuntu0.1~cloud0

No other packages (namely, libvirt/qemu/etc.) were downgraded as a 
result and I do not see any dependency issues, so it looks like this 
will be the workaround for now.  I suppose I should make my situation 
know in that bug report, eh?

Thanks again Juergen for pointing me in the right direction!

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Andre Goree
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