[Qemu-devel] Q35 FreeBSD install status

[Bret Ketchum]

 

    I’m looking for some guidance with regards to constructing a VM using a later version of FreeBSD. In reference to a qemu-devel posting:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-08/msg03329.html

    I reran with both 1.6.0.rc3 and 1.6.50 the q35 FreeBSD tests with 9.0, 9.1 and 10-CURRENT using the following command line:

qemu-kvm \

   -hda /home/ehv/images/126802.img -enable-kvm -m 1G -monitor stdio -M q35 \
    -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus -monitor stdio \
    -cdrom /home/ehv/images/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso -boot order=d

Note the command line parameter changes necessary for the current versions of qemu. I'm running this on a Fedora 17/3.4.4 host and I've tried specifying SeaBios 1.7.3 with -bios and -acpitable command line options. Note also that both the ide and ahci tests (pc-i440fx-1.6) worked as advertised on this host. My trouble is that the bios does not see either the HDD image nor the cdrom.

    My questions are am I correct to expect the aforementioned q35 test (specifically the command line) to work? Am I missing something obvious? Is there something to look?

    Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

    Bret