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[Jonathan Proulx <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Harvey West <harvey.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This boots ok.  kvm -m 2048 -hda freeBSD.img -boot c
> (note: did not use virtio mods. Assumed these were just optimized NIC/SCSI
> drivers. Which I can live without for the time being)

I ran into the same isssue with FreeBSD images. These are
paravirtualized drivers which are absolutely required to get the VM to
work.  Linux images usually have them already but for FreeBSD (and
Windows) you need to install them by hand. note that when using kvm by
hand you can specify the driver emulation required so this is why it
boots by hand but not via openstack (you could also configure
openstack to use different kvm settings, but the virtio driver is
faster and installing the drivers on FreeBSD isn't too hard. I'm not
much of a *BSD guy but I managed)

-Jon