FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, 16 May 2013 05:45:35 -0500, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com>  
wrote:

>
> Thanks for testing this, I'm afraid I'm not really familiar with
> XenServer or XenCenter. It looks like Linux users are also running into
> problems when trying to setup Linux PVHVMs on XenServer 6.1:

He's hitting a well-known bug that's had a lot of discussion on this list  
and a little bit on one of the xen lists. I'm waiting for someone at  
Citrix to fix this, but it doesn't seem to be a priority. Considering your  
email is @citrix.com, it's a little bit disheartening that you're not  
familiar with XenServer or XCP -- the only Xen platform where a business  
can get support direct from the vendor. :( Please use whatever resources  
you can to prioritize this issue as we'd love to upgrade our  
virtualization environment to 1.6 ASAP.

 From all the information I've gathered it appears there's a regression in  
qemu used in XenServer/XCP that prevents FreeBSD XENHVM from booting on  
XenServer 6.1 / XCP 1.6. Earlier versions it works fine. NetBSD and  
Linux-based Xen installs don't tend to have this problem because they use  
upstream qemu directly. I'm waiting for the next release (XenServer 6.2?)  
to come out so I can test again as they're supposed to be using upstream  
directly in future releases.

Sergey, you can work around this by removing the CDROM/DVDROM device from  
the VM. This will allow you to boot the OS and use it. You could also step  
back down to XenServer 6.0 or XCP 1.5beta to work around it, but I'm sure  
you're relying on some of the new features 6.1 has to offer.