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

Fri Jan 17 02:02:11 UTC 2014
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

Dude, do *not* run test VM's on a production environment. Can you run
a test install on your  personal machine, using VirtualBox, or KVM or
other tools, just to see if it works well with *any* virtualization
toolkit?

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net> wrote:
>   I will probably get it up to 6.5 over the weekend, it’s pretty much
> because the host has established production VM’s running on the server, and
> I have to take a bunch of stuff offline to update.   Yes, I know that needs
> to get done during some weekend maintenance time..
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> Howard Leadmon
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> From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org]
> On Behalf Of Dima (Dan) Yasny
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:56 PM
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> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
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> Why 6.4 when 6.5 is out?
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> Also, you haven't mentioned what type of storage you are using, have you
> tried both IDE and virtio?
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net> wrote:
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>  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.
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> Attaching to the console using VNC, I see:
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> gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:04.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM7FC0 at 20 C980
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> Booting from DVD/CD...
> CD Loader 1.2
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> Building the boot loader arguments
> Looking up the /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> Relocating the loader and the BTX
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> 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.
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> 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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