[PROMOTIONAL]FreeBSD 14-CURRENT as a guest working?

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 05:12:16AM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> I have put FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-amd64-20210422-df456a1fcf7-246266.raw.xz
> on an zvol and tried booting it like this:
> 
> builder = "hvm"
> name = "current0"
> disk = [
> '/dev/zvol/zroot/current0,raw,xvda,w'
> ]
> boot = "c"
> bios = "ovmf"
> usbdevice = 'tablet'
> #nographics = 1
> serial = [ "/dev/nmdm0A" ]
> vnc = 1
> #vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'
> vif = ['bridge=bridge0,mac=00:02:04:15:fd:e1','bridge=bridge1,mac=00:02:04:15:fd:e2']
> memory=8192
> vcpus=6
> vga = "stdvga"
> videoram = 16
> ;xen_platform_pci=1
> 
> it starts to boot but subsequently crashes with various messages related to network front drivers.

The following commit solves the issue in the domU:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=5d8fd932e418f03e98b3469c4088a36f0ef34ffe

I don't think there's any snapshot image with this yet.

> I tried to collect some info but now an attempt to start it seems to bog down my Xen host :(
> (it responds to TCP connections but SSH connections are frozen and I can't open new ones)

Hm, that's weird. Do you have a serial attached to the box to know
what's going on?

Thanks, Roger.