From pgj at FreeBSD.org Tue Nov 4 07:04:58 2008 From: pgj at FreeBSD.org (Gabor PALI) Date: Tue Nov 4 07:05:04 2008 Subject: Should `make buildkernel KERNCONF=XEN` Work in 8-CURRENT? Message-ID: <49106488.3080605@FreeBSD.org> Hello, I have just installed a 8-CURRENT/200810 snapshot, grabbed fresh base system sources (a few minutes before, at revision 184629) and tried to issue a `make buildkernel KERNCONF=XEN` command to build a Xen-compatible kernel, but it results many compilation errors [1]. However, a GENERIC kernel builds fine. Does anybody know somebody something about it? Am I missing something? Thank you in advance. Cheers, :g [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/too_big/make.log From bcook at poughkeepsieschools.org Tue Nov 4 18:14:57 2008 From: bcook at poughkeepsieschools.org (B. Cook) Date: Tue Nov 4 18:15:04 2008 Subject: SMP support now in HEAD Message-ID: <5945D1C0-8C69-4DE9-8CAE-B2EA0ECC7C2B@poughkeepsieschools.org> I just found this list and saw the directions on how to build the 6.3 xen enabled kernel.. (wonderful) My question is, you say you install 6.2, can I not install 6.3 and then svn to 6.3-xen? Or does it have to be 6.2? Thanks in advance. From berlin493 at sina.com Wed Nov 12 00:03:44 2008 From: berlin493 at sina.com (berlin493) Date: Wed Nov 12 04:22:04 2008 Subject: help Message-ID: <200811121537370460799@sina.com> freebsd-xen???? Hi all, please direct me to FreeBSD install file to install on Xen 3.1 on(CentOS 5.2) Thanks, - sun _______________________________________________________ Sun Rencai - ??? rencai@staff.sina.com.cn ???? - ????? - ????? R&D Center. - System Develop Dept. - System Engineer Tel: (8610) 82628888 - 5609, 15810114808 Fax: (8610) 82607510 Add: ???????????58???????17? _______________________________________________________________ http://www.sina.com.cn You're the One ??.?? ???????! _______________________________________________________ ???????????????????? _______________________________________________________ From kmacy at freebsd.org Wed Nov 12 06:05:29 2008 From: kmacy at freebsd.org (Kip Macy) Date: Wed Nov 12 06:05:36 2008 Subject: help In-Reply-To: <200811121537370460799@sina.com> References: <200811121537370460799@sina.com> Message-ID: <3c1674c90811120605n653f4887i76513ab75a7f17f2@mail.gmail.com> There are still some issues with getting it to work with the xen accompanying centos. It only works with the xen from mercurial at the moment. -Kip 2008/11/12 berlin493 : > freebsd-xen???? > > Hi all, > > please direct me to FreeBSD install file to install on Xen 3.1 on(CentOS 5.2) > > Thanks, > > - sun > > _______________________________________________________ > Sun Rencai - ??? rencai@staff.sina.com.cn > ???? - ????? - ????? > R&D Center. - System Develop Dept. - System Engineer > > Tel: (8610) 82628888 - 5609, 15810114808 > Fax: (8610) 82607510 > Add: ???????????58???????17? > _______________________________________________________________ > http://www.sina.com.cn You're the One > ??.?? ???????! > _______________________________________________________ > > ???????????????????? > _______________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis From kfuller at affinityvoip.com Wed Nov 12 16:01:04 2008 From: kfuller at affinityvoip.com (Kelly-Shane Fuller) Date: Wed Nov 12 16:01:11 2008 Subject: BOUNTY: FreeBSD DOMU USB Passthrough support Message-ID: <20081112151543.56c90488.kfuller@affinityvoip.com> I am interested in a patch or patches that provide the ability to pass through a USB Dongle from the Xen DOM0 into a FreeBSD 6.3 or later DOMU and have it appear as a usable USB device in the DOMU. I am willing to pay $500 dollars for a patch that provides this support. Please reply off list, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks! -- Kelly-Shane Fuller Head Engineer Affinity VoIP Telecom http://www.affinityvoiptelecom.com kfuller@affinityvoiptelecom.com From dzentoo at gmail.com Thu Nov 13 04:06:06 2008 From: dzentoo at gmail.com (Benoit C.) Date: Thu Nov 13 04:06:13 2008 Subject: Boot successful Message-ID: <3481d8e60811130406t65f720c3g8e3b221480901453@mail.gmail.com> I've just booted up a freebsd 6.3 from the svn ( 6.3-RELEASE svn:// svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/release_6_3_xen/ ). some points : I disabled apic : extra = "boot_single" extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd-766c,hint.apic.0.disabled=1" extra += ",kern.hz=100" How can I get a tty in order to login ? Here is the boot log: http://pastie.org/private/qrinbf0ryxfyrei111n4q -- Benoit Calvez. From Benoit.Calvez at gmail.com Thu Nov 13 08:25:29 2008 From: Benoit.Calvez at gmail.com (Benoit Calvez) Date: Thu Nov 13 08:25:50 2008 Subject: Boot successful In-Reply-To: <3481d8e60811130406t65f720c3g8e3b221480901453@mail.gmail.com> References: <3481d8e60811130406t65f720c3g8e3b221480901453@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3481d8e60811130825h77cfffdax97270b884027f6d@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Benoit C. wrote: > I've just booted up a freebsd 6.3 from the svn ( 6.3-RELEASE svn:// > svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/release_6_3_xen/ ). > > > some points : > I disabled apic : > > extra = "boot_single" > extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd-766c,hint.apic.0.disabled=1" > extra += ",kern.hz=100" > > How can I get a tty in order to login ? > > Here is the boot log: > http://pastie.org/private/qrinbf0ryxfyrei111n4q > > -- > Benoit Calvez. > > Just changed some lines in the /etc/ttys : console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure and I set all the ttyv* to off to avoid warnings. -- Benoit Calvez. From volker at thalreit.de Thu Nov 13 23:21:37 2008 From: volker at thalreit.de (Volker Jahns) Date: Thu Nov 13 23:21:44 2008 Subject: Boot successful In-Reply-To: <3481d8e60811130825h77cfffdax97270b884027f6d@mail.gmail.com> References: <3481d8e60811130406t65f720c3g8e3b221480901453@mail.gmail.com> <3481d8e60811130825h77cfffdax97270b884027f6d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <491D26F8.6080201@thalreit.de> Benoit Calvez schrieb: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Benoit C. wrote: > > >> I've just booted up a freebsd 6.3 from the svn ( 6.3-RELEASE svn:// >> svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/release_6_3_xen/ ). >> >> >> some points : >> I disabled apic : >> >> extra = "boot_single" >> extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd-766c,hint.apic.0.disabled=1" >> extra += ",kern.hz=100" >> >> How can I get a tty in order to login ? >> >> Here is the boot log: >> http://pastie.org/private/qrinbf0ryxfyrei111n4q >> >> -- >> Benoit Calvez. >> >> >> > Just changed some lines in the /etc/ttys : > console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > and I set all the ttyv* to off to avoid warnings. > > Using an extra option in Xen configuration for FreeBSD domu -- extra += ',xencons=tty' -- the following /etc/ttys config works as well -- xc0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -- Probably things have to be fixed in /etc/rc.conf (thinking in terms of network). -- ifconfig_xn0="inet 10.xxx.yyy.zzz netmask 255.255.sss.ttt" -- -- Volker Jahns, volker@thalreit.de From Benoit.Calvez at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 00:57:58 2008 From: Benoit.Calvez at gmail.com (Benoit Calvez) Date: Fri Nov 14 00:58:04 2008 Subject: paravirt features Message-ID: <3481d8e60811140057s7898d024x2e71f29921f3949c@mail.gmail.com> Hi Kip, the work you've done in order to run a freebsd as a paravirt guest is amazing, so I would like to thank you. Did you planned to support ballooning, suspend & resume, adding new block device or new vcpu ? (I successfully added a new vif with xm network-attach) Thanks, Ben -- Benoit Calvez. evk is on the way From kmacy at freebsd.org Fri Nov 14 01:03:43 2008 From: kmacy at freebsd.org (Kip Macy) Date: Fri Nov 14 01:03:49 2008 Subject: paravirt features In-Reply-To: <3481d8e60811140057s7898d024x2e71f29921f3949c@mail.gmail.com> References: <3481d8e60811140057s7898d024x2e71f29921f3949c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3c1674c90811140103s29fc2aa4lf9bd10c56cf52145@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Benoit Calvez wrote: > Hi Kip, > > the work you've done in order to run a freebsd as a paravirt guest is > amazing, so I would like to thank you. > Thanks. > Did you planned to support ballooning, suspend & resume, adding new block > device or new vcpu ? (I successfully added a new vif > with xm network-attach) Yes. In time. There is still a fair bit of performance / stabilization work that has to be done across the various branches first. -Kip From kfuller at affinityvoip.com Tue Nov 18 14:43:46 2008 From: kfuller at affinityvoip.com (Kelly-Shane Fuller) Date: Tue Nov 18 14:43:52 2008 Subject: INCREASED BOUNTY: FreeBSD DOMU USB Passthrough support Message-ID: <20081118144429.716d03d3.kfuller@affinityvoip.com> I am interested in a patch or patches that provide the ability to pass through a USB Dongle from the Xen DOM0 into a FreeBSD 6.3 or later DOMU and have it appear as a usable USB device in the DOMU. I am willing to pay $1000 dollars for a patch that provides this support. Please reply off list, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks! -- Kelly-Shane Fuller Head Engineer Affinity VoIP Telecom http://www.affinityvoiptelecom.com kfuller@affinityvoiptelecom.com From xi at borderworlds.dk Thu Nov 20 12:03:11 2008 From: xi at borderworlds.dk (Christian Laursen) Date: Thu Nov 20 12:03:17 2008 Subject: FreeBSD/Xen on openSUSE 11.0 Message-ID: I have succesfully booted FreeBSD on the Xen shipped with openSUSE 11.0. The kernel and userland are both based on -CURRENT sources from 5 days ago. The Xen dmesg: http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/xen/dmesg.xen The FreeBSD dmesg: http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/xen/dmesg I succesfully fetched a ports tree with portsnap and installed 12 ports from it. The whole virtual machine seems to freeze from time to time but will recover when I send keystrokes to its console. When I tried to do a buildworld it crashed. I don't have a crashdump but I can try to reproduce the problem if neccesary. I'll be happy to test stuff further. -- Christian Laursen From G.halse+freebsd at ru.ac.za Thu Nov 20 21:39:38 2008 From: G.halse+freebsd at ru.ac.za (Guy Antony Halse) Date: Thu Nov 20 21:39:44 2008 Subject: XenServer support? Message-ID: <20081121052513.GA75575@ru.ac.za> Hi We've recently been benchmarking FreeBSD on both VMWare ESX and Citrix XenServer, since we're trying to decide on an enterprise virtualisation product. Does anyone know whether the Xen paravirtualisation features being added by this project work with/are compatible with the Citrix's XenServer 5? So far as I can tell, XenServer 5 is based on Xen 3.0 so I'm guessing not :(, but it would be interesting to know if anyone's actually tried this or had any experience with it. If I'm right about the Xen version, are there any plans to support earlier Xen versions? - Guy -- Systems Manager, IT Division, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Email: G.Halse@ru.ac.za Web: http://mombe.org/ IRC: rm-rf@irc.zanet.net *** ANSI Standard Disclaimer *** J.A.P.H From sfourman at gmail.com Fri Nov 21 03:47:07 2008 From: sfourman at gmail.com (Sam Fourman Jr.) Date: Fri Nov 21 03:47:13 2008 Subject: XenServer support? In-Reply-To: <20081121052513.GA75575@ru.ac.za> References: <20081121052513.GA75575@ru.ac.za> Message-ID: <11167f520811210316v5c5dd5b3lb923c8dfdf1834f@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Guy Antony Halse wrote: > Hi > > We've recently been benchmarking FreeBSD on both VMWare ESX and Citrix > XenServer, since we're trying to decide on an enterprise virtualisation > product. > > Does anyone know whether the Xen paravirtualisation features being added by > this project work with/are compatible with the Citrix's XenServer 5? So far > as I can tell, XenServer 5 is based on Xen 3.0 so I'm guessing not :(, but > it would be interesting to know if anyone's actually tried this or had any > experience with it. > > If I'm right about the Xen version, are there any plans to support earlier > Xen versions? > > - Guy Maybe this link will help you out, I do not think dom0 support is being worked on atm currently I am using NetBSD for Xen dom0 http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks From bunkertor at tiscali.it Sat Nov 22 08:08:40 2008 From: bunkertor at tiscali.it (Bunkertor) Date: Sat Nov 22 08:08:47 2008 Subject: Root mount failed Message-ID: <49282BC0.1070705@tiscali.it> hi to all. i'm trying to install freebsd as domU on linux xen-ified kernel and i followed steps suggested in this post http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2008-October/000009.html. kernel customization works with no errors, so i presume i got a valid kernel for domU but when i try to start freebsd vm, this is the boot output: ================================================================================================= [root@bran xen]# xm create freebsd-63.py -c Using config file "./freebsd-63.py". Started domain freebsd-63 WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 20 12:01:20 CET 2008 root@freebsd:/usr/obj/usr/obj/release_6_3_xen/sys/freebsd-6.3-domU Xen reported: 3014.484 MHz processor. Timecounter "ixen" frequency 1000000000 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (3014.48-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf34 Stepping = 4 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x441d Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 134217728 (128 MB) avail memory = 123518976 (117 MB) Security auditing service present BSM auditing present cpu=0 irq=128 vector=0 cpu=0 irq=129 vector=1 kbd0 at kbdmux0 xc0: on motherboard cpu0 on motherboard Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec [XEN] Initialising virtual ethernet driver. xs_single device xs_talkv read_reply event=1 itype=1 htype=1 len=12 xs_single device/vbd xs_talkv read_reply event=1 itype=1 htype=1 len=4 gather xs_read xs_single device/vbd/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 1 gather xs_read xs_single device/vbd/768/backend-id xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 0 xs_read xs_single device/vbd/768/backend xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768 xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768 xs_talkv read_reply event=1 itype=1 htype=1 len=105 xs_read xs_single device/vbd/768/virtual-device xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL xs_single xs_talkv read_reply event=6 itype=6 htype=6 len=NULL xenbus_write dir=device/vbd/768 val=8 xs_talkv read_reply event=11 itype=11 htype=11 len=NULL xenbus_write dir=device/vbd/768 val=6 xs_talkv read_reply event=11 itype=11 htype=11 len=NULL xenbus_transaction_end xs_single T xs_talkv read_reply event=7 itype=7 htype=7 len=NULL xs_read xs_single device/vbd/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL xenbus_write dir=device/vbd/768 val=3 xs_talkv read_reply event=11 itype=11 htype=11 len=NULL xs_talkv read_reply event=4 itype=4 htype=4 len=NULL xs_single device/console xs_talkv read_reply event=1 itype=1 htype=1 len=2 handling 0xc0216c38 ...gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 4 gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/sectors xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 68372640 xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/info xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 0 xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/sector-size xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 512 gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/feature-barrier xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 1 xs_read xs_single device/vbd/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL xenbus_write dir=device/vbd/768 val=4 xs_talkv read_reply event=11 itype=11 htype=11 len=NULL ... 0xc0216c38 done gather xs_read xs_single device/console/0/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 1 xs_talkv read_reply event=4 itype=4 htype=4 len=NULL xs_single backend xs_talkv read_reply event=16 itype=1 htype=16 len=7 xs_talkv read_reply event=4 itype=4 htype=4 len=NULL handling 0xc02172c0 ...... 0xc02172c0 done xs_talkv read_reply event=4 itype=4 htype=4 len=NULL handling 0xc0217700 ...... 0xc0217700 done gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 xs_single xs_talkv itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 4 read_reply gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state xs_talkv event=6 itype=6 htype=6 len=NULL xs_read xs_single control/shutdown xs_talkv read_reply event=16 itype=2 htype=16 len=NULL xenbus_transaction_end xs_single F xs_talkv read_reply event=7 itype=7 htype=7 len=NULL read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 4 gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd1s1a Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> ? List of GEOM managed disk devices: xbd1 Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> ufs:xbd1 Trying to mount root from ufs:xbd1 gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL 4 Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. cpuid = 0 KDB: enter: panic [thread pid 1 tid 100006 ] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x2b: nop db> bt Tracing pid 1 tid 100006 td 0xc1119600 kdb_enter(c026cbd3) at kdb_enter+0x2b panic(c0274e9e,c00b60c8,c1118c90,0,c763fd0c,...) at panic+0x127 vfs_mountroot(c1118c90,c1119600,0,c763fcf8,c023672a,...) at vfs_mountroot+0x140 mi_startup(0,c763fd38,0,c00b60c8,0,...) at mi_startup+0x5a3 fork_exit(c00b60c8,0,c763fd38) at fork_exit+0xa0 fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8 --- trap 0x1, eip = 0, esp = 0xc763fd6c, ebp = 0 --- db> continue Uptime: 20s Cannot dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort --> Press a key on the console to reboot, --> or switch off the system now. Rebooting... ================================================================================================= it fails to mount root partition. this is my configuration file: ================================================ name = 'freebsd-63' memory = '128' disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sdb1,hda,w' ] on_shutdown = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'destroy' on_crash = 'destroy' kernel = '/mnt/exports/kernel' extra = 'boot_verbose' extra += ',boot_single' #extra += ',vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd1s1a,hint.apic.0.disabled=1' extra += ',vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd1s1a' extra += ',xencons=tty' ================================================ partition /dev/sdb1 exists on dom0 and it is unmounted, and kernel file in configuration is the xen-ified freebsd-6.3 kernel (KERNCONF=XEN). kernel verison on dom0 is Linux 2.6.21.7-5.fc8xen and xen is xen-3.1.2-5.fc8. if anyone can halp me, it will be really appreciated! thanks in advance. bye. From volker at thalreit.de Sat Nov 22 13:34:35 2008 From: volker at thalreit.de (Volker Jahns) Date: Sat Nov 22 13:34:42 2008 Subject: Root mount failed In-Reply-To: <49282BC0.1070705@tiscali.it> References: <49282BC0.1070705@tiscali.it> Message-ID: <49287AE2.8040208@thalreit.de> Bunkertor wrote: > hi to all. > i'm trying to install freebsd as domU on linux xen-ified kernel and i > followed steps suggested in this post > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2008-October/000009.html. > kernel customization works with no errors, so i presume i got a valid > kernel for domU but when i try to start freebsd vm, this is the boot > output: > ================================================================================================= > > [root@bran xen]# xm create freebsd-63.py -c > ... > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd1s1a > > Manual root filesystem specification: > : Mount using filesystem > eg. ufs:da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > Abort manual input > > mountroot> ? > > List of GEOM managed disk devices: > xbd1 > > Manual root filesystem specification: > : Mount using filesystem > eg. ufs:da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > Abort manual input > > mountroot> ufs:xbd1 > Trying to mount root from ufs:xbd1 > gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state > xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL > You might try to specify this path of root partition -- ufs:xbd1s1a -- where xbd1s1 stands partition "a" on slice 1 on disk 1. The path to the root partition however depends on how you created your partitions at installation. -- Volker Jahns, volker@thalreit.de From bunkertor at tiscali.it Sun Nov 23 10:20:29 2008 From: bunkertor at tiscali.it (Bunkertor) Date: Sun Nov 23 10:20:36 2008 Subject: Root mount failed In-Reply-To: <49287AE2.8040208@thalreit.de> References: <49282BC0.1070705@tiscali.it> <49287AE2.8040208@thalreit.de> Message-ID: <49299EDD.4050308@tiscali.it> Volker Jahns ha scritto: > Bunkertor wrote: >> hi to all. >> i'm trying to install freebsd as domU on linux xen-ified kernel and i >> followed steps suggested in this post >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2008-October/000009.html. >> kernel customization works with no errors, so i presume i got a valid >> kernel for domU but when i try to start freebsd vm, this is the boot >> output: >> ================================================================================================= >> >> [root@bran xen]# xm create freebsd-63.py -c >> ... >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd1s1a >> >> Manual root filesystem specification: >> : Mount using filesystem >> eg. ufs:da0s1a >> ? List valid disk boot devices >> Abort manual input >> >> mountroot> ? >> >> List of GEOM managed disk devices: >> xbd1 >> >> Manual root filesystem specification: >> : Mount using filesystem >> eg. ufs:da0s1a >> ? List valid disk boot devices >> Abort manual input >> >> mountroot> ufs:xbd1 >> Trying to mount root from ufs:xbd1 >> gather xs_read xs_single /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/34/768/state >> xs_talkv read_reply event=2 itype=2 htype=2 len=NULL >> > You might try to specify this path of root partition > -- > ufs:xbd1s1a > -- > where xbd1s1 stands partition "a" on slice 1 on disk 1. The path to > the root partition however depends on how you created your partitions > at installation. > thanks all for quick answers! if i try to add manually root partition as you suggest, nothing happen, it returns at prompt.. when i list valid boot disk device, at prompt, it shows to me the device reported on log (xbd1), but it seems it doesnt like it (as previous log reports). the kernel i use to boot freebsd vm on dom0 was compiled on another machine (out of the box?), an old hp notebook with freebsd 6.1 and with this fstab: ========================================================== -bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 ========================================================== so root partition is on disk 0, slice 1, partition a. one note: whe i compiled this kernel, i've installed it and world not in standard path but in other one, installing with DESTDIR option, becouse i didnt want to override working installation on notebook. i've tried to change xen configuation file of freebsd vm as follows but with same problem: ========================================================== name = 'freebsd-63' memory = '128' disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sdb1,hda,w' ] on_shutdown = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'destroy' on_crash = 'destroy' kernel = '/mnt/exports/kernel' extra = 'boot_verbose' extra += ',boot_single' #extra += ',vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd0s1a,hint.apic.0.disabled=1' extra += ',vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd0s1a' extra += ',xencons=tty' ========================================================== it doesnt find any root partition to boot the system... =( thanks to all for patience and help, im pretty new with freebsd. bye. From kmacy at freebsd.org Sun Nov 23 15:13:04 2008 From: kmacy at freebsd.org (Kip Macy) Date: Sun Nov 23 15:13:10 2008 Subject: SMP support now in HEAD In-Reply-To: <5945D1C0-8C69-4DE9-8CAE-B2EA0ECC7C2B@poughkeepsieschools.org> References: <5945D1C0-8C69-4DE9-8CAE-B2EA0ECC7C2B@poughkeepsieschools.org> Message-ID: <3c1674c90811231513r41107d5cr855bf6f7e824d59c@mail.gmail.com> I don't fully understand the question. 6.2 won't run on Xen. You can use a 6.2 world with a 6.3 kernel. -Kip On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:58 AM, B. Cook wrote: > I just found this list and saw the directions on how to build the 6.3 xen > enabled kernel.. (wonderful) > > My question is, you say you install 6.2, can I not install 6.3 and then svn > to 6.3-xen? > > Or does it have to be 6.2? > > Thanks in advance. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis