On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Joe Maloney <jpm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I’ve been trying to get bhyve to work on a system with the following specs: > > FreeBSD 10.0 64 bit > ASUS P6T Deluxe > Intel i7 920 > > According to what I’ve researched my cpu should have the VT-D extensions. > However many users of this motherboard have complained about ASUS not > properly supporting VT-D with Xen and something about a problem with tables > getting corrupt due to a problem with the bios. On the third link below > which is the Xen wiki it even states that this motherboard needs a bios > update which is not available to the public. > > https://communities.intel.com/thread/28389 > > > http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090402224408018&SLanguage=en-us&board_id=1 > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/VTd_HowTo > > I am curious though if this would be what would be causing my problem with > bhyve? I suppose I am willing to just by a new motherboard if so. > > I can run kldload vmm and I see a bunch of text fly by and then something > about uhci interrupt problem. As soon as that happens the messages repeats > my network drops and no keyboard input. However the message repeats and it > doesn’t appear that the system has fully locked up otherwise. However on > another system that works I notice that kldload VMM does not show this > information it just loads the module. > > Is there a way I can gather more logs somehow so that I can determine what > text is appearing before the uhci errors? Perhaps some kind of dump > procedure? Or is there a way I can confirm that freebsd can properly see > and utilize the VT-D extensions. VirtualBox runs fine with the VT > extensions enabled. I also made sure VirtualBox wasn’t installed or loaded > before I tried bhyve. I’ve tried to research for a week or two before > posting here. > > Joe Maloney > According to this, your processor supports VT-x, but not VT-d ; http://ark.intel.com/products/37147/Intel-Core-i7-920-Processor-8M-Cache-2_66-ghz-4_80-gts-Intel-qpi -Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"