Compiling error for amd64 on FreeBSD9.0 with XENHVM when include xen console driver.

Sean Bruno seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Aug 1 18:03:09 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 22:32 -0700, Wei Xu wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to compile new kernel with Xen Console driver on AMD 64
> platform, it's not included by default,
> I got compile error like this , I checked the code and i386 has the
> pc_ipi_to_irq but amd64 doesn't,
> look like it hasn't been experience with amd64, is there anyone know
> whether it can work? thanks.
> 

Since there's no PV support for amd64 yet.  I don't think you need the
console driver.  QEMU will emulate the uart(4) device for you and
freebsd will use the device as its serial console.

>From the dom0, you would run "xm console <vm name>".  Is this what you
mean to do?

Sean



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