Re: FreeBSD image hangs during boot

Aurelien Jarno
2007-10-02T12:21:48Z

Avi Kivity a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> That's not something new, but I never seen the problem mentioned here.
>> FreeBSD does not work on KVM, approximately since the lapic merge.
>>
>> However, that does not seem related to lapic, as using -no-kvm-irqchip
>> does not help. With -no-kvm I get a page fault in kernel mode, while the
>> normal QEMU (0.9.0 or CVS) does not have this problem.
>>
>> This can be easily reproduced with the latest installation CD:
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
>>
>>
>
> It complains about the RSDT checksum. Running with -no-acpi works
> around the problem (it gets to some country selection screen). So it
> looks like the ACPI tables are messed up.

The RSDT checksum problem is not new, but it was harmless on previous
versions (like kvm-37).

Using -no-acpi, I am able to boot the machine with -no-kvm, but the
guest still hang with -no-acpi and with -no-kvm-irqchip or lapic
enabled. At least on AMD64, I haven't tested yet on an Intel machine.

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