Re: FreeBSD image hangs during boot

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien-rXXEIb44qovR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

Avi Kivity a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>>> I also confirm that using -no-acpi fixes the problem. However, I have
>>>> seen strange data corruption, even on Intel.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, booting a recently installed FreeBSD leads to the following
>>>> message from the bootloader: "No kernel found". And the next time, I get
>>>> from the *BIOS*: "Boot from Hard Disk failed: not a bootable disk".
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the disk image, the partition table (and maybe more?) has
>>>> disappeared. This is with a raw image disk.
>>>>
>>>> If I pass either -no-kvm or -no-kvm-irqchip, the problem disappear.
>>>>       
>>> I have just got the problem with -no-kvm-irqchip, though it seems to
>>> happen less often.
>>>     
>> The data corruption seems to come from the userspace part, as I am not
>> able to reproduce it with the kvm-45 module, and the kvm-44 userspace.
>>
>>   
> 
> Does it occur with -no-kvm?
> 

After a few more tests, I have been able to reproduce it with the
current CVS version of QEMU. I conclude this is a QEMU or a BIOS
problem, and not a KVM one.

Sorry for the noise.

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