FreeBSD 9.1 as QEMU guest.

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jamie_none

Hello,

Wondering if there are any known issues getting FreeBSD 9.1 to run on QEMU.

I've used FreeBSD before as a QEMU guest, no problems. But this latest version panics with filesystem corruption. bad directory entries.

I've tried qemu version 1.2.0 & qemu version 1.2.2, I've tried placing the disk images on different physical disks, I've tried qcow2 & raw format images. All of them fail.

The outer host is linux, 3.6.11

Thanks!

Jamie
 
I'm not sure this will help, but I tried it a week ago using the i386 USB image on a FreeBSD 8 host.

I only changed the available memory (-m parameter). It panicked when using 64MB and 96MB, but worked fine when increasing to 128MB.
I was able to install 9.1 on a 2GB disk image. The disk image then booted successfully.
 
Beastie said:
I'm not sure this will help, but I tried it a week ago using the i386 USB image on a FreeBSD 8 host.

I only changed the available memory (-m parameter). It panicked when using 64MB and 96MB, but worked fine when increasing to 128MB.
I was able to install 9.1 on a 2GB disk image. The disk image then booted successfully.
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Thats the thing, it boots fine, installs fine, appears to run great. I'm using UFS.

But, when I start using the emulated disks, it panics on a directory consistency check. (usually around the time I cd editors/vim-lite ; make package)

I've done this before, older version of Linux, FreeBSD + Qemu, no problems. I'm thinking it has to do with qemu or the newer linux kernel, but, I can't seem to isolate the problem.

Tuesday I'll poke around with it some more.
 
Can you show your GUEST kernel config, maybe you will need recompiling the kernel with extra parameters.
 
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