Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > Avi Kivity a écrit : >> Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> Avi Kivity a écrit : >>> >>>> Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> That's not something new, but I never seen the problem mentioned here. >>>>> FreeBSD does not work on KVM, approximately since the lapic merge. >>>>> >>>>> However, that does not seem related to lapic, as using -no-kvm-irqchip >>>>> does not help. With -no-kvm I get a page fault in kernel mode, while the >>>>> normal QEMU (0.9.0 or CVS) does not have this problem. >>>>> >>>>> This can be easily reproduced with the latest installation CD: >>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> It complains about the RSDT checksum. Running with -no-acpi works >>>> around the problem (it gets to some country selection screen). So it >>>> looks like the ACPI tables are messed up. >>>> >>> The RSDT checksum problem is not new, but it was harmless on previous >>> versions (like kvm-37). >>> >>> Using -no-acpi, I am able to boot the machine with -no-kvm, but the >>> guest still hang with -no-acpi and with -no-kvm-irqchip or lapic >>> enabled. At least on AMD64, I haven't tested yet on an Intel machine. >>> >>> >> Looks like there is a compiler problem that's interfering here. A bios >> compiled on one machine will boot fine on Intel, but on other machines >> (unfortunately my work machines) will not. >> >> There is a separate issue with -no-acpi on AMD. Is there some version >> where -no-acpi worked on AMD? > > It was working correctly before, up to kvm version 37. > > I also confirm that using -no-acpi fixes the problem. However, I have > seen strange data corruption, even on Intel. > > Basically, booting a recently installed FreeBSD leads to the following > message from the bootloader: "No kernel found". And the next time, I get > from the *BIOS*: "Boot from Hard Disk failed: not a bootable disk". > > Looking at the disk image, the partition table (and maybe more?) has > disappeared. This is with a raw image disk. > > If I pass either -no-kvm or -no-kvm-irqchip, the problem disappear.
I have just got the problem with -no-kvm-irqchip, though it seems to happen less often. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
