FreeBSD DomU: Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0

[G VM]

 Did tried XENHVM already and this did not work for me (do note that I might have not done this thoroughly).
YMMV ;)


Greetings





> From: alex at nirgal.de
> To: mikemacleod at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:21:22 +0200
> CC: freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD DomU: Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 20.07.2010 um 13:53 schrieb Michael MacLeod:
> 
> > If you're booting the XEN kernel, it's going to need to be running in
> > paravirtualized mode. It lacks drivers for non-XEN devices. Also, I  
> > have
> > found the XEN kernel running in paravirtualized mode to be nowhere  
> > near
> > stable enough for production use.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying this.
> 
> So good news is: i don't need to install a XEN-Kernel. Bad news:  
> GENERIC won't boot out of the box.
> 
> > I have used 8.0 with the GENERIC kernel in
> > several domUs (running on Xen 3.4.2 and 4.0) successfully.
> 
> My provider is using XEN 3.3.1 - are there any known problems?
> 
> > This config file will work for an 8.0 box:
> <snip>
> 
> I have to ask my provider for that.
> 
> After a litte digging i also found the configuration for a XENHVM- 
> Kernel:
> 
>    /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/XENHVM
> 
> Is this one maybe worth a try?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alex
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