Help needed for bhyve : vm_create: Device not configured

Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 8 17:16:42 UTC 2016


I am trying to see if I can achieve Windows XP virtualization with my 
FreeBSD 10.2 amd64 host. For a first step, I am trying to get a FreeBSD 
10.2 guest up and running with the instructions at : 
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-bhyve.html

But I just get the error message "vm_create: Device not configured". 
What could be wrong ? My commands and loaded kld's are listed underneath.

Thank for any help.

kldload vmm
ifconfig tap0 create
sysctl net.link.tap.up_on_open=1
ifconfig bridge0 create
ifconfig bridge0 addm re0 addm tap0
ifconfig bridge0 up

# sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 4 -m 1024M -t tap0 -d wxp.img 
-i -I FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fbsd10dot3vm
Launching virtual machine "fbsd10dot3vm" ...
vm_create: Device not configured

# kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
  1   76 0xffffffff80200000 179ddb0  kernel
  2    1 0xffffffff81a11000 11efa    ext2fs.ko
  3    1 0xffffffff81a23000 56aa     fdescfs.ko
  4    1 0xffffffff81a29000 9da0     linprocfs.ko
  5    2 0xffffffff81a33000 43c7c    linux.ko
  6    1 0xffffffff81a77000 55ad     linsysfs.ko
  7    1 0xffffffff81a7d000 2baa     uhid.ko
  8    1 0xffffffff81a80000 358e     ums.ko
  9    2 0xffffffff81a84000 29b2     vboxnetflt.ko
10    2 0xffffffff81a87000 b9db     netgraph.ko
11    2 0xffffffff81a93000 45340    vboxdrv.ko
12    1 0xffffffff81ad9000 40fa     ng_ether.ko
13    1 0xffffffff81ade000 3f64     vboxnetadp.ko
14    1 0xffffffff81ae2000 df5f     fuse.ko
15    1 0xffffffff81af0000 11785a   radeonkms.ko
16    1 0xffffffff81c08000 522db    drm2.ko
17    4 0xffffffff81c5b000 22bb     iicbus.ko
18    1 0xffffffff81c5e000 1a51     iic.ko
19    1 0xffffffff81c60000 1e48     iicbb.ko
20    1 0xffffffff81c62000 1074     radeonkmsfw_RS780_pfp.ko
21    1 0xffffffff81c64000 5b6b     radeonkmsfw_RS780_me.ko
22    1 0xffffffff81c6a000 1368     radeonkmsfw_R600_rlc.ko
23    1 0xffffffff81c6c000 1b1baf   vmm.ko
24    1 0xffffffff81e1e000 55fc     if_tap.ko
25    1 0xffffffff81e24000 93b5     if_bridge.ko
26    1 0xffffffff81e2e000 53fa     bridgestp.ko

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Regards

Manish Jain


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