KVM tips for bsd as guest?

[Freddie Cash]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Marius Nünnerich <marius at nuenneri.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:42, Rudy <crapsh at monkeybrains.net> wrote:
>> Downloaded iso, but qemu barfs when trying to install --- loads kernel but
>> panics during boot of 7.2 ( and 8.0-rc3) install ISOs.  I am trying to set
>> up a bsd guest ... Host OS is debian.

i386 or amd64?

What are your KVM settings?  Number of CPUs, amount of RAM, type of
virtual disk (IDE/SCSI), type of NIC (rtl3189/e1000)?

Which CPU is in the host server (AMD/Intel)?

And which versions of KVM and Linux kernel are you running?


Last time I tested was with KVM-72 on 64-bit Debian using kernel
2.6.26, and installing/running FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, 32-bit and 64-bit,
ran without any issues.  Used LVM-backed virtual IDE drives, and e1000
NICs.

Granted, we use AMD Opteron CPUs, which seem to have fewer issues with
KVM than Intel Xeon CPUs.

>> I am looking for a general how-to if there is one out there( tried searching
>> didn't find it).

There's no real How-To needed.  Just configure the VM, and boot.  This
is the first time I've heard of issues with installing FreeBSD into
KVM-managed VMs.

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Freddie Cash
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