Re: Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..

[Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The host is CentOS using kvm-qemu, so kinda hard to reload the 8 running
> VM's just to try another hypervisor.   I am just trying to add a FBSD 10
> guest to an established host..

You haven't provided much information. Are you trying to boot a CD/DVD downloaded from freebsd.org or a self-backed image? Can you post the KVM commandline options that you're environment is using?

...Juerg

>
> ---
> Howard Leadmon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-virt-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-virt-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Newman
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:06 PM
> > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> > Subject: Re: Loading a FreeBSD 10 VM on QEMU-KVM..
> >
> > Do you have to use KVM?  IIRC it runs fine under virtualbox.  I think
> 10.2+
> > should work on xen but
> > haven't tried it yet.
> >
> > On 01/13/2014 07:52 PM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
> > >
> > >  I was trying to load a FreeBSD 10 VM on my CentOS 6.4 machine, and it
> > keeps
> > > hanging and not completing the boot.   I have FBSD 9.x VM's running just
> > > fine, but if I try and load 10.x it's a no go.
> > >
> > > Attaching to the console using VNC, I see:
> > >
> > >
> > > gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:04.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM7FC0@20
> > C980
> > >
> > > Booting from DVD/CD...
> > > CD Loader 1.2
> > >
> > > Building the boot loader arguments
> > > Looking up the /BOOT/LOADER... Found
> > > Relocating the loader and the BTX
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That is it, at that point it just hangs.   I have tried from 2G RAM to
> 6G
> > > RAM for the VM, and from 1 to 4 CPU's, but no effect.  The FreeBSD lists
> > > said I should load a newer QEMU-KVM, that there are much newer
> > releases but
> > > everything I have seen claims that is not a good idea, that RH does
> version
> > > numbering much differently.
> > >
> > > Has anyone run into this, or have any ideas on how to get past it, as I
> > > would love to load up the newest FBSD and give it a run as well..
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Howard Leadmon
> > >
> > >
> > >
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