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

Thu Jan 16 12:37:32 UTC 2014
Bane Ivosev <bane.ivosev at pmf.uns.ac.rs>

after virt-install, shutdown guest and with
virsh edit guest_name

under cpu section change option for xsave

  <cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
    <feature policy='disable' name='xsave'/>

or from your desktop with the gui virt-manager


On 01/16/2014 11:20 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
> I am not familiar with XSAVE, how can I set this when trying to load a new
> guest?    I have been using virt-install to try and load the VM..
> 
> 
> ---
> Howard Leadmon 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-
>> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Bane Ivosev
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:19 AM
>> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
>>
>> try to turn off XSAVE cpu option for the guest.
>>
>> On 01/14/2014 04:52 AM, 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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