From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Wed Jan 8 14:31:39 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889091F0589 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt.churchyard@userve.net) Received: from smtp-b.userve.net (smtp-outbound.userve.net [217.196.1.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.userve.net", Issuer "Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47tBWt3QKtz4YPH for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt.churchyard@userve.net) Received: from owa.usd-group.com (owa.usd-group.com [217.196.1.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-b.userve.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DCB91BC for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:31:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from SERVER.ad.usd-group.com (192.168.0.1) by SERVER.ad.usd-group.com (192.168.0.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.847.32; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:31:34 +0000 Received: from SERVER.ad.usd-group.com ([fe80::b19d:892a:6fc7:1c9]) by SERVER.ad.usd-group.com ([fe80::b19d:892a:6fc7:1c9%12]) with mapi id 15.00.0847.030; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:31:34 +0000 From: Matt Churchyard To: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" Subject: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node Thread-Topic: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node Thread-Index: AdXGKjEP6n7LMmeCSYyZ5P0RRm7iRw== Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:31:33 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [192.168.0.10] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47tBWt3QKtz4YPH X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.01 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[userve.net:s=201901]; HAS_XOIP(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:217.196.1.0/24]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[userve.net:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[userve.net,reject]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[22.1.196.217.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20652, ipnet:217.196.0.0/20, country:GB]; IP_SCORE(-0.02)[country: GB(-0.08)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:31:39 -0000 Hello, I've recently got hold of some Dell C6220 systems (2 servers in a single ch= assis) while I was hoping to use for bhyve The basic spec of a single server is as follows - Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 (VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID) 64GB DDR3 LSI MegaRaid 9265-8i FreeBSD 12.1 I had a bit of trouble getting the disks configured and booting (**probably= unrelated but see below for the details). However, my main problem at the moment is that booting either 11.3 or 12.1 = in a bhyve guest (using bhyveload) gets as far as starting to boot from the= install ISO, then just hangs " Loading kernel... /boot/kernel/kernel text=3D0x168fdf1 data=3D0x1d0a68+0x768d80 syms=3D[0x8+0= x178bc0+0x8+0x1969d5] Loading configured modules... can't find '/boot/entropy' / " I get either a "|" or "/" character, then nothing else. I've also tested a windows server 2016 guest, and while that will actually = install via UEFI, it is noticeably slow - over a minute to boot to the logi= n screen and everything crawls along I'm at a loss at the moment. My test machine for years has been an old i3-2= 100 system and that has always booted freebsd & windows guests fairly well I'd be grateful if anyone has any ideas or insight, or whether I just need = to scrap the whole idea and either switch to a completely different hypervi= sor (which I'd really rather not do as I know FreeBSD very well and was pla= nning on making use of ZFS for backups/migration/etc) or find some differen= t systems **Regarding the disks, I didn't really want a raid controller and have ende= d up creating a jbod (RAID0) volume for each disk, which appears as mfidX. = This seems to work fine, although at first I tried to create a single pool = of 2 mirrored pairs (4 disks). This failed to boot due to zfs block i/o err= ors on boot. In the end I had to create a separate boot mirror across 2 par= titions, the create a second pool for actual data storage. Regards, Matt Churchyard