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

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 7 May 2021, Roger Pau Monné wrote:

> 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:
>>
(..)

>>
>> 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.

Thank you. I plan to start building -current there so I can try to build from source.

>> 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?

Unfortunately, no. I could only hit big red button via my hosting provide "Hardware reset" console :(
They only offer KVM when I ask for it and there is no serial console option :(

Marcin
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