Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:55:07 -0500 From: Thomas Hoffmann <trh411@gmail.com> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kldload vmm partial lockup Message-ID: <CAB7-od=cqcfsF9TSFBH961fKHkTyYkebQh5wn1b8LZkKZDqyuw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAB7-odmQ1oafNfsyQTgRMzQieORrDQfjwDA%2BhwdJ_zUC3X4vcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <9C504625-F183-455E-A0FD-F9A5EC5FA944@gmail.com> <CAB7-odmQ1oafNfsyQTgRMzQieORrDQfjwDA%2BhwdJ_zUC3X4vcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Hoffmann <trh411@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Joe Maloney <jpm820@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I’ve been trying to get bhyve to work on a system with the following >> specs: >> >> FreeBSD 10.0 64 bit >> ASUS P6T Deluxe >> Intel i7 920 >> >> According to what I’ve researched my cpu should have the VT-D extensions. >> However many users of this motherboard have complained about ASUS not >> properly supporting VT-D with Xen and something about a problem with tables >> getting corrupt due to a problem with the bios. On the third link below >> which is the Xen wiki it even states that this motherboard needs a bios >> update which is not available to the public. >> >> https://communities.intel.com/thread/28389 >> >> >> http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090402224408018&SLanguage=en-us&board_id=1 >> >> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo >> >> I am curious though if this would be what would be causing my problem >> with bhyve? I suppose I am willing to just by a new motherboard if so. >> >> I can run kldload vmm and I see a bunch of text fly by and then something >> about uhci interrupt problem. As soon as that happens the messages repeats >> my network drops and no keyboard input. However the message repeats and it >> doesn’t appear that the system has fully locked up otherwise. However on >> another system that works I notice that kldload VMM does not show this >> information it just loads the module. >> >> Is there a way I can gather more logs somehow so that I can determine >> what text is appearing before the uhci errors? Perhaps some kind of dump >> procedure? Or is there a way I can confirm that freebsd can properly see >> and utilize the VT-D extensions. VirtualBox runs fine with the VT >> extensions enabled. I also made sure VirtualBox wasn’t installed or loaded >> before I tried bhyve. I’ve tried to research for a week or two before >> posting here. >> >> Joe Maloney >> > > According to this, your processor supports VT-x, but not VT-d ; > http://ark.intel.com/products/37147/Intel-Core-i7-920-Processor-8M-Cache-2_66-ghz-4_80-gts-Intel-qpi > > -Tom > But this i7-920 processor does: http://ark.intel.com/products/43126/Intel-Core-i7-920XM-Processor-Extreme-Edition-8M-Cache-2_00-GHz Not sure which you have. -Tom
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