[Users] How to setup FreeBSD 8.3 Guest on oVirt 3.3

Mon Feb 10 12:24:16 UTC 2014

Based on KVM docs: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status#FreeBSD
you should use e1000 NIC to begin with.

There are several known issues with amd64:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/5558/freebsd-amd64-kvm-troubleshooting
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/11843-Proxmox-2-2-Freebsd-8-3-AMD64-freezes-can-not-start-installation

So I'd go with disabling anything you can, and try a very
basic boot at first. 

Please try and let us know.

Thanks,
Doron

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dresel Christopher" <dresel at fhwn.ac.at>
> To: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:53:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] How to setup FreeBSD 8.3 Guest on oVirt 3.3
> 
> I tried different CPU settings - I also tried the extension hook from René
> Koch which modifies the vm xml before start - no success.
> 
> Interestingly on the same machine a simple Debian / Libvirt setup with the
> amd64 build works...
> 
> Best Regards,
> Christopher
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karli Sjöberg [mailto:Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se]
> Sent: Friday, 31. January, 2014 08:14
> To: Dresel Christopher
> Cc: rkoch at linuxland.at; users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] How to setup FreeBSD 8.3 Guest on oVirt 3.3
> 
> Hi Dresel!
> 
> On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 17:22 +0000, Dresel Christopher wrote:
> > Sure already tried that - IDE, no Ethernet at all, everything related to
> > VirtIO disabled - no success.
> >
> > Quoted from the forum:
> >
> > "It has nothing to do with the virtio driver. It is a more deeply rooted
> > problem inside KVM in its emulation of CPU's over Intel chipsets in
> > combination with *BSD amd64."
> >
> > As I already virtualized pfSense with an older Version of Intel Chipset
> > (Sandy Bridge) with KVM and Hardware Virtualization I really think it's
> > related to the newer Haswell chipset. The same configuration with an i386
> > ISO build works.
> 
> We are running our BSD's in our Intel cluster on HP DL 380 G5 that are Conroe
> and one Penryn, so we may jusy have dodged this bullet, but I can at least
> say that FreeBSD works fine like that.
> 
> Maybe you can try and "dumb" your cluster down to Conroe and see if that ´ll
> make a difference?
> 
> /K
> 
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Christopher
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: René Koch [mailto:rkoch at linuxland.at]
> > Sent: Donnerstag, 30. Jänner 2014 16:32
> > To: Dresel Christopher
> > Cc: Joop; users at ovirt.org
> > Subject: Re: [Users] How to setup FreeBSD 8.3 Guest on oVirt 3.3
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 12:27 +0000, Dresel Christopher wrote:
> > > The passing error seems to be a bug when using Run Once - Run behaves as
> > > expected.
> > >
> > > Nevertheless my problem seems related to Haswell + KVM + Hardware
> > > Virtualisation + FreeBSD (see
> > > http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/16564-PVE3-1-FreeBSD8-3-pfsense-KVM-Hardware-Virtualization-and-VirtIO-not-possible).
> > >
> > > Possible Workarounds: Disable Hardware Virtualization (guess this is not
> > > possible on VM basis with oVirt?) or use an i386 Version of FreeBSD.
> > >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you can't disable hardware virtualization on a vm basis.
> > Btw, does FreeBSD boot if you use an IDE disk and e1000 NIC (did go quickly
> > through the proxmox forum thread and issues seem to be virtio related)?
> > This will decrease performance for sure, but maybe it's sufficient.
> > My Solaris vms are for compiling and Puppet module tests, so IDE and
> > e1000 emulated devices are fine for me.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > René
> >
> >
> >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Dresel Christopher
> > > Sent: Mittwoch, 29. Jänner 2014 21:24
> > > To: René Koch; Joop
> > > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Users] How to setup FreeBSD 8.3 Guest on oVirt 3.3
> > >
> > > Thank you, I already found your repo and I'm testing.
> > >
> > > The custom property is selectable via the GUI, the hook gets called,
> > > but I don't know why it don’t work - it seems like the custom
> > > property does not get passed to the hook :/
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: René Koch [mailto:rkoch at linuxland.at]
> > > Sent: Mittwoch, 29. Jänner 2014 20:51
> > > To: Joop; Dresel Christopher
> > > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Users] How to setup FreeBSD 8.3 Guest on oVirt 3.3
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 19:27 +0100, Joop wrote:
> > > > Dresel Christopher <dresel at fhwn.ac.at> wrote:
> > > > >Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >I’m using oVirt 3.3 and trying to setup a FreeBSD 8.3 Guest machine.
> > > > >The machine hangs after the booting screen -  I already googled
> > > > >about this, but didn’t find any helpful articles.
> > > > >
> > > > >Cluster uses “Intel Penryn Family“, the VM is configured with 1
> > > > >virtual CPU as suggested in one of the threads I found on the
> > > > >internet.
> > > > You're probably looking at x2pic cpu flag problems. A vdsm hook might
> > > > help. Have posted to proxmox forum about this. Also, solaris seems
> > > > affected, has been discussed on this list.
> > > >
> > >
> > > For Solaris I wrote a hook which can be found here (works fine for
> > > Solaris 10/11 on Intel CPUs):
> > > https://github.com/ovido/ovirt-stuff/tree/master/hooks
> > >
> > > Don't know if this is needed for (older versions of) FreeBSD, too.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > René
> > >
> > >
> > > > Joop
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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