Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U.

[Andrew Turner]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:18:57 -0500
Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik at erikosterholm.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:06:49AM +0900, Harrison Grundy wrote:
> > I just thought I'd note that you can use Xen with FreeBSD if your
> > processor supports hardware virtualization, I believe.
> 
> I have yet to hear any independant verification of this.  Anyone
> actually running FreeBSD as a domU with hardware virtualization?

I've attempted to boot AMD64 and i386 FreeBSD on an AMD64 Xen 3.0.6
machine. The AMD64 FreeBSD failed in the BTX code with an error similar
to [1].

The i386 version of FreeBSD will boot when you remove SMP, PREEMPTION
and INVARIANTS from the kernel [2]. There are other problems with it
when you do get it to boot.

Andrew

[1] http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622
[2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/076400.html

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