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Grimes" Message-Id: <202001082137.008LbZl9091675@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: bhyve issues on Dell C6220 node In-Reply-To: To: Matt Churchyard Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:37:35 -0800 (PST) CC: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47tMzX1gT8z4Blc X-Spamd-Bar: + Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net has no SPF policy when checking 69.59.192.140) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.04 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.35)[-0.354,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dnsmgr.net]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.46)[0.461,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13868, ipnet:69.59.192.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.03)[ip: (0.14), ipnet: 69.59.192.0/19(0.07), asn: 13868(0.02), country: US(-0.05)]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] 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 21:37:45 -0000 > Hello, > > I've recently got hold of some Dell C6220 systems (2 servers in a single chassis) 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=0x168fdf1 data=0x1d0a68+0x768d80 syms=[0x8+0x178bc0+0x8+0x1969d5] > Loading configured modules... > can't find '/boot/entropy' > / > " > > I get either a "|" or "/" character, then nothing else. My experience has been when I see this it is a "wrong console" issue, ie the kernel has decided to use something else for a console and your output is going there. It might be your setup using a UEFI with a fb console up to the end of the loader, then the kernel decides it is using a serial console. Or vice versa. > > 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 login screen and everything crawls along > > I'm at a loss at the moment. My test machine for years has been an old i3-2100 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 hypervisor (which I'd really rather not do as I know FreeBSD very well and was planning on making use of ZFS for backups/migration/etc) or find some different systems > > > **Regarding the disks, I didn't really want a raid controller and have ended 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 errors on boot. In the end I had to create a separate boot mirror across 2 partitions, the create a second pool for actual data storage. > > Regards, > Matt Churchyard > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org