FreeBSD on kvm

[Alessandro Baggi]

On 01/06/2012 05:40 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>
> On 1/6/12 4:18 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>> On 01/06/2012 12:50 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>>> On 1/6/12 11:43 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>> i've a problem running freebsd as a guest on linux+kvm. The only problem
>>>> is that sometimes, when I boot the system it dies and this happens also
>>>> if I run the vm with and without -nographic option. Using the qemu GUI I
>>>> can see the it stops on the boot loader menu after the countdown and the
>>>> only mode to resume the system is reboot the vm. I've reduced the
>>>> autoboot delay to 1 without no result.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Someone know something about this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> This is exactly how to *not* ask a question.
>>> Please take the time to read this very informative article:
>>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
>>>
>>>
>>> For instance, you've omitted important information such as:
>>>
>>> - linux version
>>> - qemu version
>>> - freebsd version
>>> - freebsd error message when "it dies", if any
>>> - KVM configuration options (disk mode and such)
>>>
>>>
>>> We've been running FreeBSD 7 then 8 as a guest in Debian linux/KVM for
>>> over 3 years now for our pre-production environment and are very happy
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> Please post some more details, that we might be able to actually help.
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>> True, I'm sorry, too few informations.
>>
>> The host system is Slackware64 Linux 13.37
>> QEMU emulator version 0.14.0 (qemu-kvm-0.14.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008
>> Fabrice Bellard
>> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3
>>
>>
>>
>> kvm option: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -pidfile $PIDFILE -cpu host -smp
>> $NCPU -m $MRAM -k $KB -enable-kvm -drive
>> file=$IMAGE,media=disk,index=0,cache=writeback -net
>> nic,model=$NICMODEL,macaddr=$MAC -net
>> tap,ifname=$TAP,script=no,downscript=no -runas $USER -monitor
>> unix:$SOCKET,server,nowait -nographic -daemonize
>>
>> There are not errors. When there is the countdown  it seems to die.For
>> example it stops to 9 seconds or 6 and stop (die) No boot line, only the
>> boot loader menu blocked. To avoid this
>> I want say that freebsd work very well under kvm, the problem is
>> presented every 2/3 startup of this virtual machine.
>>
>
> What disk format do you use, with KVM ?
> QCOW2, RAW, VirtIO ?
>
> We're running with QCOW2 here, emulating IDE drives and we don't have
> any problem.
>
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I'm using QCOW2.
For ide drives do you give -hda?

Info: if I give Enter during the  countdown, it starts, if i leave the 
countdown to finish, it crash.
But running with -nographic there isn't sense to give "enter"

Leaving delay boot to 10 sec, always block. Set delay boot to 1, it give 
me some "crash".
There is a possibility to run directly the system instead print the 
menu? I must install lilo/grub?

Thanks in advance.