Greetings, When playing with autoinstall in VM I encountered a kernel panic. It doesn't happened each attempt, but often enough to be easy found.
An example of panic: island$ vmctl start -c -b /tmp/bsd.rd -B net playground Connected to /dev/ttyp2 (speed 115200) Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2023 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. https://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 7.4 (RAMDISK_CD) #1322: Tue Oct 10 09:07:38 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD real mem = 1056964608 (1008MB) avail mem = 1020968960 (973MB) random: boothowto does not indicate good seed mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0 acpi at bios0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: AMD Ryzen 9 3900 12-Core Processor, 3100.00 MHz, 17-71-00 cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,PCLMUL,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,CMPLEG,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,TCE,TOPEXT,CPCTR,DBKP,PCTRL3,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,CLWB,SHA,UMIP,IBRS_SM cpu0: 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way I-cache, 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache, 16MB 64b/line 16-way L3 cache pvbus0 at mainbus0: OpenBSD pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "OpenBSD VMM Host" rev 0x00 virtio0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio RNG" rev 0x00 viornd0 at virtio0 virtio0: irq 3 virtio1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Network" rev 0x00 vio0 at virtio1: address fe:e1:ba:05:ec:58 virtio1: irq 5 virtio2 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Storage" rev 0x00 vioblk0 at virtio2 scsibus0 at vioblk0: 1 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <VirtIO, Block Device, > sd0: 204800MB, 512 bytes/sector, 419430400 sectors virtio2: irq 6 virtio3 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "OpenBSD VMM Control" rev 0x00 vmmci0 at virtio3 virtio3: irq 7 isa0 at mainbus0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns8250, no fifo com0: console softraid0 at root scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 7.4 installation program. (I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or (S)hell? A Fetching http://192.168.0.1/fe:e1:ba:05:ec:58-install.conf?path=7.4/amd64 Fetching http://192.168.0.1/playground.island.local.-install.conf?path=7.4/amd64 Fetching http://192.168.0.1/install.conf?path=7.4/amd64 Response file location? [http://192.168.0.1/install.conf] http://install.catap.net/install.conf Fetching http://install.catap.net/install.conf Performing non-interactive install... Terminal type? [vt220] vt220 System hostname? (short form, e.g. 'foo') [playground] playground panic: pool_do_get: mcl2k free list modified: page 0xfffffd8037a41000; item addr 0xfffffd8037a43000; offset 0x0=0xa0000 != 0xa9af274a93548aef syncing disks... done panic: pool_do_get: mcl2k free list modified: page 0xfffffd8037a41000; item addr 0xfffffd8037a43000; offset 0x0=0xa0000 != 0xa9af274a93548aef dump to dev 17,1 not possible vmmci0: powerdown rebooting... VM configuration quite simple: vm "playground" { memory 1G disk "/var/vm/playground.qcow2" interface { switch "local" lladdr "fe:e1:ba:05:ec:58" } owner catap } and disk size is 200Gb. -- wbr, Kirill