<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Using virtio mods helped. Many thanks all. </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jonathan Proulx <jon@jonproulx.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Harvey West <harvey.west@btinternet.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Lloyd Dewolf <lloydostack@gmail.com>; "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" <openstack@lists.launchpad.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 18:37<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack]
Help with VMs<br> </font> </div> <br>On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Harvey West <<a ymailto="mailto:harvey.west@btinternet.com" href="mailto:harvey.west@btinternet.com">harvey.west@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> This boots ok. kvm -m 2048 -hda freeBSD.img -boot c<br>> (note: did not use virtio mods. Assumed these were just optimized NIC/SCSI<br>> drivers. Which I can live without for the time being)<br><br>I ran into the same isssue with FreeBSD images. These are<br>paravirtualized drivers which are absolutely required to get the VM to<br>work. Linux images usually have them already but for FreeBSD (and<br>Windows) you need to install them by hand. note that when using kvm by<br>hand you can specify the driver emulation required so this is why it<br>boots by hand but not via openstack (you could also configure<br>openstack to use different kvm settings, but the virtio driver is<br>faster and installing the drivers on
FreeBSD isn't too hard. I'm not<br>much of a *BSD guy but I managed)<br><br>-Jon<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>