Re: [Qemu-devel] Are FreeBSD guest images working?

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:06:36PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > 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.

Well...  I never expected this. :)

> 
> 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.

SPICE worked for me now, and I tested your serial configuration, it
works as well! (though there'll be some display issue with the boot
logo before the kernel starts, but it's not a big problem)

Thanks!

-- 
Peter Xu