IBM KVM on P8 saga: 11.0 CURRENT 20151229 r292858 installs but won't boot

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 12/30/15 23:42, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:00:39 -0800
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted. Two ideas:
>> 1. Can you disable graphics? The command line bits to accomplish that
>> would be -nographic -vga none. I'm not sure how to do it through libvirt.
> Well, I've set the vga to "xen", to be able to connect to the console
> through "virsh".
> I think that shoul disable the vga: if I try to connect via vnc, all I see
> is a black screen, no cursor.
>
>> 2. If you boot again from the install CD, can you send the output of
>> "gpart show" from the install shell? I'd be interested to see how the
>> partitions have been set up on the disk.
> Here it is:
>
> When finished, type 'exit' to return to the installer.
> # gpart show
> =>     9  330165  cd0  MBR  (645M)
>         9  330165       - free -  (645M)
>
> =>     255  41942785  da0  MBR  (20G)
>         255      1600    1  prep-boot  [active]  (800K)
>        1855  41941184    2  freebsd  (20G)
>    41943039         1       - free -  (512B)
>
> =>     9  330165  iso9660/11_0_CURRENT_POWERPC64_CD  MBR  (645M)
>         9  330165                                     - free -  (645M)
>
> =>       0  41941184  da0s2  BSD  (20G)
>           0  39845888      1  freebsd-ufs  (19G)
>    39845888   2095295      2  freebsd-swap  (1.0G)
>    41941183         1         - free -  (512B)
>
> #
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano.

That should all be fine and looks exactly like my system. Can you tell 
me what happens if you, at the command line, do this:
qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 1536 -nographic -vga none -mem-prealloc 
-mem-path /dev/hugepages /var/lib/libvirt/images/creosotis.qcow2

I'd like to rule out any strangeness from the many options passed to 
QEMU by libvirt.
-Nathan