From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 16:40:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252B1106566C for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B212A8FC14 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so1888970wgb.31 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.83.72 with SMTP id o8mr8352582wiy.22.1325868046708; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ga4sm53133883wbb.4.2012.01.06.08.40.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:40:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F07240C.4070803@my.gd> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:40:44 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F06D041.4050702@gmail.com> <4F06E011.40305@my.gd> <4F0710C0.5030405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F0710C0.5030405@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD on kvm X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:40:49 -0000 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail >> to"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > 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.