Loading A FreeBSD 10 VM On QEMU-KVM..

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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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14 thoughts on - 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.

  • Why 6.4 when 6.5 is out?

    Also, you haven’t mentioned what type of storage you are using, have you tried both IDE and virtio?

  • 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..

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  • I will probably get it up to 6.5 over the weekend, it’s pretty much because the host has established production VM’s running on the server, and I have to take a bunch of stuff offline to update. Yes, I know that needs to get done during some weekend maintenance time..

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  • I am not familiar with XSAVE, how can I set this when trying to load a new guest? I have been using virt-install to try and load the VM..

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  • after virt-install, shutdown guest and with virsh edit guest_name

    under cpu section change option for xsave


    or from your desktop with the gui virt-manager

  • Dude, do *not* run test VM’s on a production environment. Can you run a test install on your personal machine, using VirtualBox, or KVM or other tools, just to see if it works well with *any* virtualization toolkit?

  • 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

    just lists I

  • Hello Juerg,

    I wasn’t sure what all was useful, so I figured I would respond back and post whatever was asked for that might help with sorting this out.

    Here is the rundown on a few details on the setup. First off the hardware is an HP DL580G5 server with 4x E7450 Xeon CPU’s in the server and 32G RAM, to a SAS array. The CentOS OS should be current as of this message, as I
    have applied all the latest updates using yum. I show the kernel to be Linux version 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64 and the qemm-kv version is showing as QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2).

    The FreeBSD release I am trying to load on a guest VM is the production release of FreeBSD 10, the ISO grabbed from the master site is FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso, and the virt-install command I am using is:

    virt-install –connect qemu:///system -n FBSD-10_vm1 -r 2048 –vcpus=1
    –disk path=/dev/vg_virtual/FBSD-10_vm1 -c
    /images/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso –graphics vnc,portY20,listen=0.0.0.0 –noautoconsole –os-variant freebsd8
    –accelerate –network=bridge:br0 –network=bridge:br1

    I am specifying the freebsd8 flag, as I see no sign of a newer os-variant I
    can use, so that was the closest to what I was trying to run. As stated before, if I try and boot FBSD 8 or 9, it works just fine, it’s just when I
    try and launch 10 that I have this issue.

    If there is any other info that would be helpful, just let me know..

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  • Just a FYI. I’m successfully running FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 in a kvm VM
    (under Ubuntu, so probably a different version of KVM). Going to upgrade to -RELEASE today (downloading image now).

    I don’t know what the freebsd8 variant flag does in virt-install, but I don’t bother with it. I just create the KVM definition as a clone of a previous one using ‘virsh define’ with an .xml file.

    The following is an xml dump of my port building VM with the VM
    stopped:

    % virsh dumpxml kate

    kate
    f20189a0-2349-3435-ddb4-160184e6c054
    2097152
    2097152
    1

    hvm








    destroy
    restart
    restart

    /usr/bin/kvm























    When making a clone I just remove the ‘

  • post whatever was asked for that might help with sorting this out. hardware is an HP DL580G5 server with 4x E7450 Xeon CPU

  • You should be using bhyve instead.

    Regards

    Alberto Mijares El 22/01/2014 06:20, “Juerg Haefliger” escribió: