[CentOS-virt] Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..

Tue Jan 14 04:05:37 UTC 2014
Sarah Newman <srn at prgmr.com>

Do you have to use KVM?  IIRC it runs fine under virtualbox.  I think 10.2+ should work on xen but
haven't tried it yet.

On 01/13/2014 07:52 PM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
> 
>  I was trying to load a FreeBSD 10 VM on my CentOS 6.4 machine, and it keeps
> hanging and not completing the boot.   I have FBSD 9.x VM's running just
> fine, but if I try and load 10.x it's a no go.
> 
> Attaching to the console using VNC, I see:
> 
> 
> gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:04.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM7FC0 at 20 C980
> 
> Booting from DVD/CD...
> CD Loader 1.2
> 
> Building the boot loader arguments
> Looking up the /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> Relocating the loader and the BTX
> 
> 
> 
> That is it, at that point it just hangs.   I have tried from 2G RAM to 6G
> RAM for the VM, and from 1 to 4 CPU's, but no effect.  The FreeBSD lists
> said I should load a newer QEMU-KVM, that there are much newer releases but
> everything I have seen claims that is not a good idea, that RH does version
> numbering much differently.
> 
> Has anyone run into this, or have any ideas on how to get past it, as I
> would love to load up the newest FBSD and give it a run as well..
> 
> 
> 
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> Howard Leadmon 
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