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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:17:52 -0700
From:      "sree.openwrk" <sree.openwrk@gmail.com>
To:        Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bhyve - Host kernel panic after running 'kldload vmm'
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Hey Neel
Thanks for the immediate reply.
I found that the BIOS did not have vm-x and vt-d enabled and luckily
enabling them fixed the issue.
Now I am able to load the vmm module and its not throwing any error as of
now.

Thanks

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:12 PM, s vas <sree.openwrk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have a kernel panic when loading bhyve hypervisor kernel module.
> > These are the steps I followed
> > 1. First I installed Freebsd 9 on my machine which has Intel-x86_64 and
> 8Gb
> > Ram
> > 2.  The following output from dmesg.boot confirm that vmx is enabled in
> the
> > machine.
> > PU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 520  @ 2.40GHz (2394.06-MHz K8-class
> > CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x20655  Family = 6  Model = 25
>  Stepping =
> > 5
> >
> >
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> >
> >
> Features2=0x29ae3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI>
> >   AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
> >   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> >   TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
> >
> > 3. Then I checked out the latest code from svn://
> > svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/bhyve/
> >     a) I built world and kernel
> >     b) Followed the steps in
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> > (25.7.1
> > The Canonical Way to Update Your System) to install the new kernel and to
> > install the new world.
> >     c) Rebooted to the newly built kernel.
> > 4. I wanted to give 4gb to the host kernel and the remaining memory for
> the
> > guest. So I set hw.physmem to "0x100000000".
> > 5. Rebooted the host so that hw.physmem takes effect (Following
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_instructions.txt)
> >     a) This is the sysctl output
> >        sysctl -a | grep hw.physmem
> >        hw.physmem: 3185545216
> >        cat /boot/loader.conf
> >        hw.physmem="0x100000000"
> > 6. Then executed 'kldload vmm'. Got kernel panic with the following trace
> >
> > -----
> > #0 - #8 is panic related call trace....
> > ........
>
> Could you provide the stack frames above vmx_enable()?
>
> It is unclear from the subset of stack frames provided here as to what
> the cause of the panic is.
>
> best
> Neel
>
> > #9  0xffffffff8189b91f in vmx_enable (arg=Variable "arg" is not
> available.
> > ) at vmx_cpufunc.h:65
> > #10 0xffffffff808b9e5d in smp_rendezvous_action ()
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/
> > sys/kern/subr_smp.c:381
> > #11 0xffffffff80b5f0c5 in Xrendezvous () at apic_vector.S:342
> > #12 0xffffffff80b58e86 in acpi_cpu_c1 ()
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/amd64/acpica/acpi_machdep.c:97
> > #13 0xffffffff803467ce in acpi_cpu_idle ()
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_cpu.c:967
> > #14 0xffffffff80b622b5 in cpu_idle_acpi (busy=Variable "busy" is not
> > available.
> > )
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:689
> > #15 0xffffffff80b64ab8 in cpu_idle (busy=0)
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c:843
> > #16 0xffffffff8089ed21 in sched_idletd (dummy=Variable "dummy" is not
> > available.
> > )
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:2583
> > #17 0xffffffff80846835 in fork_exit (
> >     callout=0xffffffff8089eae0 <sched_idletd>, arg=0x0,
> >     frame=0xffffff800023cc40)
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:992
> > #18 0xffffffff80b5e55e in fork_trampoline ()
> >     at /media/fbsd_part2/bhyve/bhyve/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S:602
> >
> > I am attaching herewith the text core as well as the info. Can someone
> tell
> > me whats happening?
> >
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