Help debugging Vultr boot delay...?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:27:15 UTC
Hi all. I noticed a couple oddities with Vultr's FreeBSD support recently. The first was that when you asked for a 13.1 VM (with the alternative being 12.3) you'd actually get a 13.0 image. They've addressed this now, so it's no longer a concern. The second issue is still there and while I've brought it to their attention, it'd probably be useful if they had some expert help. What I'm observing with new VMs, both their images and via FreeBSD's own install media, is a pause of one and three quarters minutes (around 105 seconds) between: ugen0.2: <QEMU QEMU USB Tablet> at usbus0 and the next line, which appears to be: hdacc0: <Generic (0x1af40022) HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0 FreeBSD believes it's on Hyper-V 10.0.14393 [SP0] but the same VM booted into GNU/Linux probes KVM, so I've got to ask about that. Given fairly limited access to the VM - pretty much, a KVM console and whatever I can manage to be saved to disk - is there any useful way I can get more data about what's going on during the visible pause? This appears with the FreeBSD 13.1 install (disc1) ISO and with 13.0 as supplied by Vultr, but I can boot other ISOs with something custom to explore, as needed. Thanks in advance if anyone has clues or ideas. I'll report back when I know more, regardless. -- Mason Loring Bliss mason@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I