Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:40:44 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on kvm Message-ID: <4F07240C.4070803@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <4F0710C0.5030405@gmail.com> References: <4F06D041.4050702@gmail.com> <4F06E011.40305@my.gd> <4F0710C0.5030405@gmail.com>
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On 1/6/12 4:18 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > On 01/06/2012 12:50 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> On 1/6/12 11:43 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >>> Hi list, >>> i've a problem running freebsd as a guest on linux+kvm. The only problem >>> is that sometimes, when I boot the system it dies and this happens also >>> if I run the vm with and without -nographic option. Using the qemu GUI I >>> can see the it stops on the boot loader menu after the countdown and the >>> only mode to resume the system is reboot the vm. I've reduced the >>> autoboot delay to 1 without no result. >>> >>> >>> Someone know something about this problem? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >> Hi, >> >> >> This is exactly how to *not* ask a question. >> Please take the time to read this very informative article: >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise >> >> >> For instance, you've omitted important information such as: >> >> - linux version >> - qemu version >> - freebsd version >> - freebsd error message when "it dies", if any >> - KVM configuration options (disk mode and such) >> >> >> We've been running FreeBSD 7 then 8 as a guest in Debian linux/KVM for >> over 3 years now for our pre-production environment and are very happy >> with it. >> >> Please post some more details, that we might be able to actually help. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail >> to"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > True, I'm sorry, too few informations. > > The host system is Slackware64 Linux 13.37 > QEMU emulator version 0.14.0 (qemu-kvm-0.14.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 > Fabrice Bellard > FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 > > > > kvm option: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -pidfile $PIDFILE -cpu host -smp > $NCPU -m $MRAM -k $KB -enable-kvm -drive > file=$IMAGE,media=disk,index=0,cache=writeback -net > nic,model=$NICMODEL,macaddr=$MAC -net > tap,ifname=$TAP,script=no,downscript=no -runas $USER -monitor > unix:$SOCKET,server,nowait -nographic -daemonize > > There are not errors. When there is the countdown it seems to die.For > example it stops to 9 seconds or 6 and stop (die) No boot line, only the > boot loader menu blocked. To avoid this > I want say that freebsd work very well under kvm, the problem is > presented every 2/3 startup of this virtual machine. > What disk format do you use, with KVM ? QCOW2, RAW, VirtIO ? We're running with QCOW2 here, emulating IDE drives and we don't have any problem.
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