Installer ISO for 2.4.4 freezing at boot on EFI framebuffer information: on kvm/libvirt/qemu CentOS 8

liminalsunset · Jan 2, 2020, 8:06 AM

Hi

I'm attempting to do a virtual install of pfSense 2.4.4 on a AMD Ryzen 5 1700 machine running CentOS 8 and the included version of kvm/libvirt/qemu. The install seems to boot, but gets stuck at the attached screen saying EFI framebuffer information: and a bunch of other stuff about that.

The install freezes and this behaviour is not helped by 2.5.0 development nor safe mode.

Is there anything I can do to make this work?

Thanks!

kiokoman · Jan 2, 2020, 2:37 PM

check here, this one have the same problem
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/148138/stuck-at-booting-kvm-ubuntu18-04-server

liminalsunset · Jan 3, 2020, 6:32 PM

Problem solved. You need to set "Westmere" or "kvm64" CPU type instead of host passthrough in libvirt/virsh/kvm/qemu configuration file "virsh edit $vmname"

<cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'>
<model fallback='allow'>Westmere</model>
<topology sockets='1' cores='6' threads='2'/>
</cpu>