freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi

freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi

[Sterling Windmill]

I am attempting to get freebsd 7.0 32-bit running under kvm-76 and have been successful with the emulated ide interface and e1000 networking. 

When I try to use kvm's scsi interface, I am able to complete the freebsd install but get a bootloader message stating that the kernel cannot be found upon attempting to boot into freebsd. 

Has anyone else experienced this? 

Thanks, 
Sterling Windmill 

Re: freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi

[Avi Kivity]

Sterling Windmill wrote:
> I am attempting to get freebsd 7.0 32-bit running under kvm-76 and have been successful with the emulated ide interface and e1000 networking. 
>
> When I try to use kvm's scsi interface, I am able to complete the freebsd install but get a bootloader message stating that the kernel cannot be found upon attempting to boot into freebsd. 
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? 
>   

Have you enabled extboot (-drive ...,boot=on)?

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Re: freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi

[Sterling Windmill]

The only difference between my working IDE config and the broken SCSI is the "if=" parameter.

Here is how I am calling qemu for this virtual machine:

/usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -drive file=/dev/mapper/storage-freebsd,if=scsi,boot=on -net nic,model=e1000 -net tap,script=/root/kvmstuff/qemu-ifup -daemonize -vnc :2 \
-boot c -cdrom /root/kvmstuff/7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

Interestingly, I also note that while IDE seems to work fine, restarting the guest by issuing a shutdown -r while logged into freebsd or by sending a ctrl+alt+del to the virtual machine via VNC results in a boot failure. Shutting down the qemu instance and starting it up again allows freebsd to boot properly.

Thanks again,
Sterling Windmill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avi Kivity" <avi@redhat.com> 
To: "Sterling Windmill" <sterling@ampx.net> 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org 
Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 3:34:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi 

Sterling Windmill wrote: 
> I am attempting to get freebsd 7.0 32-bit running under kvm-76 and have been successful with the emulated ide interface and e1000 networking. 
> 
> When I try to use kvm's scsi interface, I am able to complete the freebsd install but get a bootloader message stating that the kernel cannot be found upon attempting to boot into freebsd. 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this? 
> 

Have you enabled extboot (-drive ...,boot=on)? 

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this 
signature is too narrow to contain. 

Fwd: freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi

[Sterling Windmill]

Is there a bugzilla I can post this issue to? 

I'm still unable to get freebsd 7.0 booting after install with if=scsi on kvm-77 

Thanks in advance, 
Sterling Windmill 

----- Forwarded Message ----- 
From: "Sterling Windmill" <sterling@ampx.net> 
To: "Avi Kivity" <avi@redhat.com> 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org 
Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 9:05:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi 

The only difference between my working IDE config and the broken SCSI is the "if=" parameter. 

Here is how I am calling qemu for this virtual machine: 

/usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -drive file=/dev/mapper/storage-freebsd,if=scsi,boot=on -net nic,model=e1000 -net tap,script=/root/kvmstuff/qemu-ifup -daemonize -vnc :2 \ 
-boot c -cdrom /root/kvmstuff/7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 

Interestingly, I also note that while IDE seems to work fine, restarting the guest by issuing a shutdown -r while logged into freebsd or by sending a ctrl+alt+del to the virtual machine via VNC results in a boot failure. Shutting down the qemu instance and starting it up again allows freebsd to boot properly. 

Thanks again, 
Sterling Windmill 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avi Kivity" <avi@redhat.com> 
To: "Sterling Windmill" <sterling@ampx.net> 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org 
Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 3:34:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: freebsd 7.0 32-bit won't boot with kvm scsi 

Sterling Windmill wrote: 
> I am attempting to get freebsd 7.0 32-bit running under kvm-76 and have been successful with the emulated ide interface and e1000 networking. 
> 
> When I try to use kvm's scsi interface, I am able to complete the freebsd install but get a bootloader message stating that the kernel cannot be found upon attempting to boot into freebsd. 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this? 
> 

Have you enabled extboot (-drive ...,boot=on)? 

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this 
signature is too narrow to contain. 

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