<p>On the same OS with the same kernels basically I cannot boot FreeBSD installer, I&nbsp;believe the issue is the host CPU.</p> <p>One host runs an Intel and works, while an Opteron 2373 does not work despite suggestions from this thread: <a href="http://149.20.54.209/showthread.php?t=36761">http://149.20.54.209/showthread.php?t=36761</a></p> <p>I've tried cpu options like &quot;kvm64&quot; &quot;Opteron_G3&quot; and none of them worked.<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>The bootloader hangs with the following:</p> <p><img width="720" height="400" src="/imagesup/image/Screenshot-FreeBSD-9_2ErrorOpteron2373-butnotIntel.png" alt="" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1><strong>I found the solution based on these threads</strong></h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=36761">forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php</a></p> <p><a href="http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/amd64-175780-Crash-on-KVM-boot-due-to-xsave-instruction-issue-td5783169.html">freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/amd64-175780-Crash-on-KVM-boot-due-to-xsave-instruction-issue-td5783169.html</a></p> <p>You need to specify these cpu options:</p> <p>-cpu core2duo,-xsave</p> <p>I couldn't get it to boot with -cpu host and the -xsave (disables the xsave CPU&nbsp;function which is the other cause of the crash).</p>
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