From: Hans-Jörg Höxer Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: vmd(8): Use 32-bit direct kernel launch for both amd64 and i386 To: Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:23:12 +0200 On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 02:23:45PM +0100, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 02:24:34PM +0200, Hans-Jrg Hxer wrote: > > The diff can be tested with amd64 and i386 ramdisk kernels like this: > > > > # vmctl start -c -b i386/bsd.rd myvm > > # vmctl start -c -b amd64/bsd.rd myvm > > > > Using a BIOS boot image (eg. /etc/firmware/vmm-bios) is not affected by > > this change. > > On a few of our systems this diff is throwing vm_resetcpu: failed, and the > corresponding vms don't start. > > Does this change rely on any other recent commits? > > If not, I suspect that some of our local changes are breaking it. > > We have various production systems deployed with vms that boot directly in to > the kernel without using a bios image, including several custom kernel > configs, so I would like to test this on them, but unfortunately most of the > interesting systems are running a heavily modified 7.7-release rather than > -current. > First of all: Thanks for testing! This diff does rely on commits more recent than 7.7-release. It won't apply cleanly on 7.7-release sources. To understand what you are doing: You are running a currnet vmd with this patch on a 7.7-release based system?