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

Thu Jan 16 10:17:06 UTC 2014
Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net>

The host is CentOS using kvm-qemu, so kinda hard to reload the 8 running
VM's just to try another hypervisor.   I am just trying to add a FBSD 10
guest to an established host..


---
Howard Leadmon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-
> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Newman
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:06 PM
> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
> 
> 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..
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Howard Leadmon
> >
> >
> >
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