https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254513

--- Comment #34 from Jamie Landeg-Jones <ja...@catflap.org> ---
(In reply to Dennis Noordsij from comment #32)

> Regarding ready installation images; I usually boot the rescue mode and 
> install manually by creating partitions and untarring the base system, so 
> perhaps Hetzner/Vultr provide installation media where virtio_random is 
> already pre-blacklisted).

The vultr install does indeed disable virtio-random, but that wasn't the only
issue: I created my own ISO without virtio-random , and whilst it stopped the
boot hang, it still caused problems (hanging on reboot being one)

I talked with the vultr guy and he confirmed - he had to disable virtio-random
AND change the KVM profile to boot :

> "2021-07-14 16:37:43
> We've found that v12 and older of FreeBSD do not actually support q35 - so 
> when any version of FreeBSD is selected from our control panel we default 
> that back to i440fx. We do have a few customers using the iso-over-image 
> trick, and we didn't want to break them if they're just selecting the default 
> version (13) and then trying to install 12 over it.

> We have not done extensive testing of FreeBSD on q35 yet - it seems like 
> support for this is very new, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were still 
> issues causing it to hang at reboot.

>Brian, Vultr.com Support
"

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