Xen PV drivers for FreeBSD

[Yuriy Kohut]

Hi,

Just let you know: everything starts work for me in 8.2-PRERELEASE (RELENG_8)

Thank you for your work.

I'm also highly interesting FreeBSD paravirtualized DOMU to be stable. I'll build test XEN i386 today. I'll let you know results if you want.
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Yura

On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2010, at 4:12 AM, Yuriy Kohut <ykohut at onapp.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would not like to disturb you, but, have you a chance to reproduce the issue ?
> 
> A FreeBSD stable/8 XENHVM kernel from yesterday functions properly for me in my Xen environment.
> 
>> The problem is not with CDROM device, but with boot process stops.
> 
> Did you remove the CDROM from the device configuration for your domain?   My host systems do not have CDROM devices to pass through, so I have not tested the impact of detecting a CDROM device on the FreeBSD XENHVM device probe process. 
> 
> In short, I understand that you are not directly complaining a about CDROM functionality, but my hunch is that the detection of a CDROM device is exposing a bug in the block front driver which leads to a hang during boot. 
> 
> --
> Justin