Re: [Qemu-devel] Are FreeBSD guest images working?

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:05:33AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 15/11/18 9:58, Peter Xu wrote:
> > Hi, the list,
> > 
> > I am trying to boot a FreeBSD guest but failed.  It hangs at the
> > kernel booting phase:
> > 
> > /boot/ker]el/kernel text=0x14ed860 data=0x132538+0x4baa68 
> > syms=[0x8+0x159ee8+0x8
> > Booting...
> > (nothing more)
> > 
> > It's just as simple as downloading the image and boot so I can't think
> > of anything strange within my procedures so far:
> > 
> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD#FreeBSD
> > 
> > I also tried the latest image here:
> > 
> > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/11.2-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz
> > 
> > but it's having the same problem as 11.0.
> > 
> > Am downloading an fresh ISO, but before I continue I'm just curious on
> > whether anyone is using these images and whether there's quick answers
> > to what I have encountered.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> 
> I use 'make vm-build-freebsd' which works, but the image comes
> pre-installed.

It's because I'm always with no-gui mode and FreeBSD images has no
serial enabled by default.  I was possibly spoiled by the nice
virt-builder before with consoles setup already for all Linux guest
images.  Thanks for answering!

Regards,

-- 
Peter Xu