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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:53:29 +0200
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: guest kernel fails to start when cpuset is used
Message-ID:  <1d1cc837-786c-40d4-8420-788c33b992a6@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <05fbcbb9-be80-4ea4-818c-1e343e1f9305@quip.cz>
References:  <882fe6bb-3870-4ce7-bd5a-7f50a9ae5774@gmx.com> <05fbcbb9-be80-4ea4-818c-1e343e1f9305@quip.cz>

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On 3/19/26 13:21, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> On 19/03/2026 11:39, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to limit a 12-core VM with cpuset. So I limited it to 0-5
>> cores and the kernel seems to fail to start.
> 
> [..]
> 
>> ACPI APIC Table: <BHYVE  BVAPIC >
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 12 CPUs
>> FreeBSD/SMP: 12 package(s) x 1 core(s)
>> random: unblocking device.
>> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-31
>> Launching APs: 2 8 6 11 10 9 3 4 7 5 1
>>
>> And it stays there spinning.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea. Why not use -c a -p options for bhyve?
> -c <num_of_cores>
> -p vcpu:hostcpu Pin guest's virtual CPU vcpu to hostcpu

I already am. And while I do not know whether is a good or bad idea,
I was kind of surprised that it crashed...


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