Citrix Xenserver and FreeBSD migration/suspend scripts
Mark Felder
feld at feld.me
Sun Aug 12 16:13:00 UTC 2012
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:50:16 -0500, Jay West <jwest at ezwind.net> wrote:
> Questions:
> 1) on the stock 64bit 9.0 & 9.1-beta XENHVM kernels, we still had the
> boot
> problem where after installing the kernel and rebooting, the boot failed
> as
> being unable to find the boot device. We had to pass a boot string of
> ad0p2
> instead of the default ada0p2, and then edit fstab accordingly. I assume
> others here had to do that as well?
>
Yes, but I think that's because with the XENHVM kernel the disks are using
a different driver. There's a difference between the ad and ada drivers.
> 2) I'm sure this will show a lack of understanding on my part, but I'm
> just
> curious about the xen-tools port that has been in the ports collection
> for a
> little while. As per the pdf on the migration/suspend scripts, this
> needs to
> be installed first. I would think the current port - being called
> "xen-tools", would/should include these migration/suspend scripts. It's
> not
> xen-tools (in Citrix parlance) without that capability. So, is this a
> case
> of the new scripts just "finish off" the work that went into the current
> xen-tools script and the xen-tools port in the ports collection is
> functionally incomplete? I guess I'm unclear as to the
> history/relationship/status of the xen-tools port and these
> migration/suspend scripts.
This is likely where it will show up. I've been talking to the ports@ team
and it seems to make sense that we include it in that port.
>
> 3) In some of my googling on 64 bit XENHVM "how-to's", one of them (can't
> find it at the moment) mentioned 64 bit Freebsd not working right under
> Xen
> with regards to SMP, and the how-to offered several patches to disable
> SMP
> amongst other related items. To run the new migration/suspend scripts,
> did
> other people here need to use those patches?
>
I have a feeling this is an old/resolved issue as I've not seen it yet.
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