Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U.

[Erik Osterholm]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:56:44PM +1300, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:18:57 -0500
> Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik at erikosterholm.org> wrote:
> > I have yet to hear any independant verification of this.  Anyone
> > actually running FreeBSD as a domU with hardware virtualization?
> 
> I've attempted to boot AMD64 and i386 FreeBSD on an AMD64 Xen 3.0.6
> machine. The AMD64 FreeBSD failed in the BTX code with an error similar
> to [1].
> 
> The i386 version of FreeBSD will boot when you remove SMP, PREEMPTION
> and INVARIANTS from the kernel [2]. There are other problems with it
> when you do get it to boot.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> [1] http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622
> [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/076400.html

Thanks for the sad news.

Erik