[Qemu-devel] Are FreeBSD guest images working?

[Ilya Maximets]

> Hi, the list,
> 
> I am trying to boot a FreeBSD guest but failed.  It hangs at the
> kernel booting phase:
> 
> /boot/ker]el/kernel text=0x14ed860 data=0x132538+0x4baa68 
> syms=[0x8+0x159ee8+0x8
> Booting...
> (nothing more)
> 
> It's just as simple as downloading the image and boot so I can't think
> of anything strange within my procedures so far:
> 
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD#FreeBSD
> 
> I also tried the latest image here:
> 
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/11.2-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz
> 
> but it's having the same problem as 11.0.
> 
> Am downloading an fresh ISO, but before I continue I'm just curious on
> whether anyone is using these images and whether there's quick answers
> to what I have encountered.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- 
> Peter Xu

Hi,
I have one VM with FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2 image and it works
fine under qemu 2.12.1. But it's controlled by libvirt + virt-manager,
so it has a bit more cmdline arguments than in wiki.

In general, those images has serial console disabled by default.

Creating the following file in VM fs:
address@hidden ~]# cat /boot/loader.conf 
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
comconsole_speed="115200"
console="comconsole,vidconsole"

allows me to successfully boot with:
# qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 2048  \
      -cpu host -enable-kvm -nographic -smp 2 \
      -drive if=virtio,file=./FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2,format=qcow2

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.