FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

[Outback Dingo]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Jeroen van der Ham <jeroen at dckd.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just remove this line (or pointing to a similar file from the template:
> (It's part of the disks definition:
>
> >       'file:/root/freebsd-10.iso,hdc:cdrom,r',
>
>
Thanks, but this is XCP not a generic XEN server where there are vm config
files under /etc/xen/ in XCP they dont exists


> Jeroen.
>
> On 23 May 2013, at 19:02, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On 23/05/13 18:30, Outback Dingo wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
> >>> <mailto:roger.pau at citrix.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
> >>>    <mailto:roger.pau at citrix.com>> wrote:
> >>>>> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users,
> >>>    so we
> >>>>> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and
> >> provide
> >>>>> feedback.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've just been able to install it on a VPS using the latest
> >>>    pvhvm_v9 branch.
> >>>
> >>>    The branch pvhvm_v9 contains an initial implementation of PV IPIs
> for
> >>>    amd64. I've now finished it and I'm going to port it to i386 also,
> >> and
> >>>    push a new branch to the repository.
> >>>
> >>>> This is good news, because the system I had before actually had
> >>>    trouble with the HVM kernel from 9.1 [0].
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm going to leave this running for a while and do some more tests
> >>>    on it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeroen.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=175822
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I built the rev_9 branch on a XCP host and rebooted, however I am
> seeing
> >>>
> >>> on boot after ugen0.2: <QEMU 0.10.2> at usbus0
> >>>
> >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
> >>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
> >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for
> >>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
> >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for
> >>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
> >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for
> >>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
> >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for
> >>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
> >>> panic: run_interrupt_driven_confighooks: waited too long
> >>> cpuid = 0
> >>> KDB: enter: panic
> >>> [ thread pid 0 tid 100000 ]
> >>> Stropped at kdb_enter +0x3b: movq $0,0xad6522(%rip)
> >>> db>
> >>
> >> From what I've read on the list, it seems like you cannot boot the PVHVM
> >> kernel if you have a cdrom attached to the guest, could you try
> >> disabling the cdrom and booting again?
> >>
> >>
> > great how does one go about disabling the cdrom, i get some disk
> parameters
> > needs to be removed from the vm template before boot
>
>