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

Wed Jan 22 10:50:18 UTC 2014
Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com>

>   Hello Juerg,
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> I wasn’t sure what all was useful, so I figured I would respond back and
post whatever was asked for that might help with sorting this out.
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> Here is the rundown on a few details on the setup.   First off the
hardware is an HP DL580G5 server with 4x E7450 Xeon CPU’s in the server and
32G RAM, to a SAS array.   The CentOS OS should be current as of this
message, as I have applied all the latest updates using yum.   I show the
kernel to be Linux version 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64 and the qemm-kv
version is showing as QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2).

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> The FreeBSD release I am trying to load on a guest VM is the production
release of FreeBSD 10, the ISO grabbed from the master site is
FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso, and the virt-install command I am
using is:
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> virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n FBSD-10_vm1 -r 2048 --vcpus=1
--disk path=/dev/vg_virtual/FBSD-10_vm1 -c
/images/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso --graphics
vnc,port=5920,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole --os-variant freebsd8
--accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1
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> I am specifying the freebsd8 flag, as I see no sign of a newer os-variant
I can use, so that was the closest to what I was trying to run.   As stated
before, if I try and boot FBSD 8 or 9, it works just fine, it’s just when I
try and launch 10 that I have this issue.
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> If there is any other info that would be helpful, just let me know..


Sorry I wasn't able to get this going on CentOS 6.5. I disabled XSAVE but
that didn't make a difference. It looks like CentOS KVM is simply too
old/broken for FreeBSD 10. Maybe you can try with a newer KVM BIOS so see
if that makes a difference.

...Juerg


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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 Juerg Haefliger
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 3:15 AM
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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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> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net>
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> > 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..
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> You haven't provided much information. Are you trying to boot a CD/DVD
downloaded from freebsd.org or a self-backed image? Can you post the KVM
commandline options that you're environment is using?
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> ...Juerg
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