Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

[Roger Pau Monné]

El 06/08/15 a les 15.06, Karl Pielorz ha escrit:
> 
> --On 06 August 2015 13:46 +0200 Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry for the delay, as usual I've been busy with a bunch of other
>> stuff. You can find the patch against HEAD here:
>>
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~royger/0001-xen-allow-disabling-PV-disks-and-
>> nics.patch
>>
>> The description is self-explanatory I think. I've not tried to apply it
>> to stable-10, but I don't think there have been many changes in this
>> area in general. If you need help backporting it ping me and I will
>> provide a suitable version.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the patch! - I couldn't apply it automatically (not entirely
> sure what to do with a git diff like that :) - and, the hvm.c part of
> patch wouldn't apply cleanly anyway (too much difference).
> 
> *Having said that* - I applied it by hand to my 10.1-R system, and it
> seems to work perfectly. I've put the XENHVM and xenpci back in the
> kernel, re-enabled veridian for that VM, and put
> 'hw.xen.disable_pv_nics=1' in boot loader.
> 
> I now have a PV disk, but HVM NIC (re0) based machine - that's agile,
> and works with OpenVPN and inter-VM routing.
> 
> I can post the standard 'diff -u' patchset against 10.1 back to the list
> if needed (I know other people had PV NIC issues and were using the same
> non-agile "boot as HVM" fix for it).

I'm going to let the patch sit here for a while so people can
test/comment. Since I'm going on vacations next week, if there are no
complains I'm planning to apply it when I'm back on the 17th.

Roger.