Citrix Xenserver and FreeBSD migration/suspend scripts

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El 12/08/2012, a las 18:12, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> escribió:

> 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.


That's it... 

> 
>> 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.

I suppose should be different ports... Xenstore is a Xen system capability but the Citrix rules for working with the xapi and xencenter are just for Citrix's Xen systems... You don't need them if you're virtualizing in a Gentoo dom0 for example... I'll create a different port for it in September/October... Which of course install by dependency xen-tools's port... But should not be the same 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?
>> 
> 

Nope and I'm running some big mail systems with it... I haven't seen nothing related to smp... Unless untill now...



> I have a feeling this is an old/resolved issue as I've not seen it yet.