I haven't tried on bare metal, but have seen some other list, where in some one tried on bare metal and that was running well, as their VM on KVM was still failing. -----Original Message----- From: Nakajima, Jun [mailto:jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 8:37 PM To: Venkateswara Rao Nandigam Cc: KVM Subject: Re: Freebsd VM Hang while Bootup on KVM, processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Venkateswara Rao Nandigam <venkateswararao.nandigam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have tried Freebsd10.0 64bit VM on the KVM Host running RHEL 6.4, processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz. > > The Freebsd VM hangs at the "booting... " prompt. > > If I boot the host kernel with "nosmep", then Freebsd VM boots up fine. I know Xeon V2 processors are having the smep feature. > > Any ideas/solutions on how to boot Freebsd VM with smep option enabled in Host Kernel. > Does it boot on bare metal? -- Jun Intel Open Source Technology Center ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����o�^n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�