kern/118734: FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 4 fail to boot under Xen fully virtualized

[Curtis W. Rendon]

The following reply was made to PR kern/118734; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Curtis W. Rendon" <curtis.rendon at gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org,  bsder at allcaps.org
Cc:  
Subject: kern/118734: FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 4 fail to boot
 under Xen fully virtualized
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:57:41 -0600

  >Number:         118734
  >Category:       kern
  >Synopsis:       FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 4 fail to boot 
 under Xen fully virtualized
  >Confidential:   no
  >Severity:       serious
  >Priority:       high
  >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
  >State:          open
  >Quarter:
  >Keywords:
  >Date-Required:
  >Class:          sw-bug
  >Submitter-Id:   current-users
  >Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 15 22:50:03 UTC 2007
  >Closed-Date:
  >Last-Modified:
  >Originator:     Andrew P. Lentvorski
  >Release:        6.3 and 7.0
  >Organization:
  >Environment:
  >Description:
  >FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 fail to boot under Xen fully 
  >virtualized.
 
  >It throws a BTX failure.
 
  >What is the solution for running FreeBSD as a DomU under Xen?
 
  >The system has the Intel virtualization extensions.
 
 Sorry if this has already been addressed:
 I work in the XEN project at AMD and have seen this same issue.
 
 What I do to get around it is to boot with acpi disabled.
 
 You won't be able to get multiple vcpus, but the system will work otherwise.
 
 Curtis
 
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