On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:31:17AM +0000, Venkateswara Rao Nandigam wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > As suggested by You, the following is the issue info. Is this something to be fixed in host kernel? > > Description: > FreeBSD 64bit(10.0) Guest freezes at "booting...." on Linux KVM, host running RHEL6.4 or RHEL 6.5. > Tested various versions of FreeBSD, Any version of FreeBSD 64bit will freeze the same way. > The issue occurs only on RHEL6.4 or RHEL6.5 host, if the Physical CPU has "SMEP" feature enabled. > In these host versions, if the kernel loaded with "nosmep" boot parameter, cannot find "SMEP" feature on '/proc/cpuinfo', > And FreeBSD guest boots properly. This issue has been fixed in kernel-2.6.32-472.el6. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html