Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U.

[Kevin Schmidt]

On Thursday 25 October 2007, Erik Osterholm wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:06:49AM +0900, Harrison Grundy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 12:05 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > > "Vincent Blondel" <vincent at xtra-net.org> writes:
> > > > Can somebody indicate me what settings I have to include in
> > > > GENERIC config file so to compile a Xen Dom/U FreeBSD kernel.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD currently does not support running under Xen.
> >
> > I just thought I'd note that you can use Xen with FreeBSD if your
> > processor supports hardware virtualization, I believe.
>
> I have yet to hear any independant verification of this.  Anyone
> actually running FreeBSD as a domU with hardware virtualization?

FWIW, I've tried FreeBSD as an HVM guest on several Linux distros as 
Dom0, Xen 3.0 (3.0.3, 3.0.4) and 3.1 (3.1.0), using Xen packages and 
manual compiles.  Linux distros included Ubuntu 7.04 and Debian 4.  
FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 -- release and snapshots -- consistently fail to 
boot with a looping "BTX halted" and register dump.  If there's a way 
to install stock FreeBSD under Xen HVM, I haven't seen it.  Without 
saying whether this is properly a Xen problem or FBSD BTX problem, my 
guess is this type of installation will not work until there are BTX 
changes.

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