Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 09:11:00 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM KVM on P8 saga: FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA1-powerpc-powerpc64-20160528-r300895 won't boot Message-ID: <8826c4e2-0115-fee0-7aef-776b9548b0e4@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3rPGPK21Fyz1cXKx@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3r9Zbp6spTz1cXL0@baobab.bilink.it> <3rJNSk16Hjz1cXKx@baobab.bilink.it> <254582a5-efe3-4ec9-785f-b158b350ec95@freebsd.org> <3rJpbK0kp5z1cXL0@baobab.bilink.it> <3fc108e2-d56a-baa2-dae1-54e0704fe789@freebsd.org> <3rPGPK21Fyz1cXKx@baobab.bilink.it>
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You may need to run ppc64_cpu --smt=off on the KVM host first. I can
reproduce hangs in late boot without the threads option and am working
on it. It would be great if you could file a PR.
-Nathan
On 06/07/16 08:55, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:45:07 -0700
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Interesting. Can you tell me what happens if you add -threads 8 to the
>> QEMU command line to expose all the threads?
> Yes.
> It says:
>
> Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-ppc64: -threads: invalid option
>
> Details:
>
> Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to
> monitor: qemu-system-ppc64: -threads: invalid option
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 89, in cb_wrapper
> callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 125, in tmpcb
> callback(*args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 83, in newfn
> ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1437, in startup
> self._backend.create()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1035, in create
> if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
> libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-ppc64: -threads: invalid option
>
> I've added:
> <qemu:commandline>
> <qemu:arg value='-threads'/>
> <qemu:arg value='8'/>
> </qemu:commandline>
>
> to the xml domain.
>
> Luciano.
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