[Users] Panic on FreeBSD guest with >1 CPU

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/27/2012 08:28 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> Since recently patching our hosts, I´ve been having trouble running FreeBSD guests with more than one virtual core or socket. I have managed take a screenshot of how it looks like when it panics when booting kernel, right after ACPI:
> http://i47.tinypic.com/2u90qrr.png
>
> I´ve tried this with similar results using 8.2-RELEASE, 8.3-RELEASE, 9.0-RELEASE and 9-STABLE.
>
> If I edit the guest to have only one virtual core or socket, it boots up without issue.
>
> Since noticing this, I´ve tried updating the packages one more time, thinking maybe it had already been fixed but no, it remains. These are the package versions I´m using:
> # rpm -qa | egrep '(kernel|libvirt|qemu|vdsm|seabios)' | sort -d
> ipxe-roms-qemu-20120328-1.gitaac9718.fc17.noarch
> kernel-3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64
> kernel-3.6.3-1.fc17.x86_64
> kernel-3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64 << This is the one that´s running
> libvirt-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> libvirt-client-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> libvirt-daemon-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> libvirt-daemon-config-network-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> libvirt-python-0.9.11.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> qemu-common-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64
> qemu-img-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-tools-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64
> qemu-system-x86-1.0.1-2.fc17.x86_64
> seabios-1.7.1-1.fc17.x86_64
> seabios-bin-1.7.1-1.fc17.noarch
> vdsm-4.10.0-10.fc17.x86_64
> vdsm-cli-4.10.0-10.fc17.noarch
> vdsm-python-4.10.0-10.fc17.x86_64
> vdsm-xmlrpc-4.10.0-10.fc17.noarch
>
> Do you have any insights as to what the problem might be?
>
> Best Regards
> Karli Sjöberg
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the first suspect would be qemu-kvm and maybe the bios, can you please 
downgrade it to the previously working version?

thanks,
    Itamar