FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

[Jeroen van der Ham]

Hi,

Just remove this line (or pointing to a similar file from the template: (It's part of the disks definition:

> 	'file:/root/freebsd-10.iso,hdc:cdrom,r',

Jeroen.

On 23 May 2013, at 19:02, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 23/05/13 18:30, Outback Dingo wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
>>> <mailto:roger.pau at citrix.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
>>>    <mailto:roger.pau at citrix.com>> wrote:
>>>>> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users,
>>>    so we
>>>>> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and
>> provide
>>>>> feedback.
>>>> 
>>>> I've just been able to install it on a VPS using the latest
>>>    pvhvm_v9 branch.
>>> 
>>>    The branch pvhvm_v9 contains an initial implementation of PV IPIs for
>>>    amd64. I've now finished it and I'm going to port it to i386 also,
>> and
>>>    push a new branch to the repository.
>>> 
>>>> This is good news, because the system I had before actually had
>>>    trouble with the HVM kernel from 9.1 [0].
>>>> 
>>>> I'm going to leave this running for a while and do some more tests
>>>    on it.
>>>> 
>>>> Jeroen.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=175822
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I built the rev_9 branch on a XCP host and rebooted, however I am seeing
>>> 
>>> on boot after ugen0.2: <QEMU 0.10.2> at usbus0
>>> 
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> panic: run_interrupt_driven_confighooks: waited too long
>>> cpuid = 0
>>> KDB: enter: panic
>>> [ thread pid 0 tid 100000 ]
>>> Stropped at kdb_enter +0x3b: movq $0,0xad6522(%rip)
>>> db>
>> 
>> From what I've read on the list, it seems like you cannot boot the PVHVM
>> kernel if you have a cdrom attached to the guest, could you try
>> disabling the cdrom and booting again?
>> 
>> 
> great how does one go about disabling the cdrom, i get some disk parameters
> needs to be removed from the vm template before boot