[Users] Panic on FreeBSD guest with >1 CPU

[Karli Sjöberg]

27 nov 2012 kl. 16.01 skrev :

> 
> 27 nov 2012 kl. 15.59 skrev Itamar Heim:
> 
>> On 11/27/2012 09:56 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> if we identify the offending package, and versions, easier to report the regression and ask to fix it
> 
> So yay/nay it is! Thanks.
> 

I´ve now tested to create a new FreeBSD server with dual cores in our experiment/test system and it worked, no problemo.

oVirt test system - good:
ipxe-roms-qemu-20120328-1.gitaac9718.fc17.noarch
kernel-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-network-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.11.6-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.9.11.6-1.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-1.7.0-1.fc17.x86_64
seabios-bin-1.7.0-1.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

oVirt prod system - bad:
ipxe-roms-qemu-20120328-1.gitaac9718.fc17.noarch
kernel-3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64
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