FreeBSD 12.1 panics during boot from ISO

Discussion in 'Other Virtual machines' started by ChristophH3, Dec 15, 2019.

  1. ChristophH3

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    Hi,
    I have some issues with installing FreeBSD 12.1 (amd64) from the official ISO images into a Parallels VM. I tried all kinds of ISO images (dvd, cd for both x86 and amd64), but no matter which image I choose, it always stops with an error message from the boot loader.

    panic: zfree(0x7e4e9690,8224): wild pointer

    Does anyone else see this behavior and knows a way how to handle this issue? I also played around with other settings for the VM (e.g. switching hypervisors), but to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Christoph
     
  2. Kaoru

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    Hi,

    Set vm.bios.efi = 1 to the boot flag in the boot order settings.

    Kaoru
     
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  3. ChristophH3

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    Hi Karou,
    this did the trick, thank you!

    Cheers,
    Christoph
     
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  4. PaulR25

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    Just spent two days trying different ways to install pfSense, with no luck. Then tried just FreeBSD with no luck. Your post sorted it. Many thanks.
     
  5. ManuelH4

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    Awesome. Thank you for that
     
  6. KeithK6

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    Seems to do the trick for pfsense as well. was getting can't load kernel before setting this
    Thanks!
     
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  7. MarcelloR

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    Same here (pfSense) and setting vm.bios.efi = 1 worked for me too.
    Thank you.
     
  8. KamalM2

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    Try this,
    Set vm.bios.efi = 1 to the boot flag in the boot order settings.
     
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  9. nsayer

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    Alas, I have tried that and I just get a dialog box that says PRL_ERR_VM_VALLOC_MON_BODY.
     
  10. lvv.me

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    Update to 12.3 solved.
     
  11. RyanI

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    This is SUPER LAME that this WASTES our time like this.
    Parallels staff. There are 1000's of students worldwide that might run into this while in Cybersecurity training. HackerU or CyberSecurity Bootcamp with TDX.

    They tell us to use VMWARE or Virtualbox because the teachers and curriculum has not figured a way through this with Parallels.

    The answer is:
    You can't install PFSense as an ISO with Parallels. Parallels does not recognize the ISO for pfSense.

    The way to install pfSense on Parallels is to :
    Choose center button > "Install Windows or aother OS from a DVD or Image file"
    Click the Checkbox on the lower part ---> "Continue without a source". ---(Important)

    Then it says "You have selected to create a blank virtual machine" > Click Continue
    Then it FORCES you to choose an operating system.
    Select "FreeBSD" > Continue
    Name it "pfSense" > Then click the checkbox for "Customize settings before installation" (--- IMPORTANT!)
    The Configuration window pops up.
    Click [Hardware] > CPU & Memory > Set Memory to 2GB (2048 MB)
    Click [Hard Disk] > Advanced > Properties > Select Minimum 32GB
    Click [CD/DVD] > Dropdown "Disconnected" --> Select "Choose an Image file" > Choose pfSense.iso.
    -----------> If the download is an .iso.gz, then you need to open Terminal and type this
    ----------->`gzip -d [filename].iso.gz`
    -----------> change the file permissions `CHMOD 777 [filename].iso`
    ALSO, Select the [+] at the bottom and add another Network.
    Select [Source] "Host-Only"

    -----------> MOST IMPORTANT
    Select [Boot order] > Advanced
    Add this to "Boot Flag" ---> `vm.bios.efi = 1` - With no [`]
    And then close everything and click [Continue] on the creation of the Virtual Machine.
     
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  12. gghowto

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    Update to 12.3 solved. gghowto
     

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