[Users] Panic on FreeBSD guest with >1 CPU

[Karli Sjöberg]

27 nov 2012 kl. 15.42 skrev 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

Oh the fun of downgrading...pass:) But it just so happens that we have another ovirt system running, apart from the production system, that may be less patched. I´ll check and see if there´s any difference there. Is there any data you wish me to share, like logs or something while testing? Or just yay/nay?

/Karli

> working version?
> 
> thanks,
>   Itamar