FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

[Sergey Nasonov]

On Thursday 16 May 2013 06:56:47 Mark Felder wrote:
> 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.

Hello all.

Removing cdrom device by issuing vbd-destroy resolve the problem. Now VM 
running fine.  Thanks for help.

Below output from Dom0

[root at xen1 ~]# xenstore-ls -fp
/local = ""   (n0)
/local/domain = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0 = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/device = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/device/suspend = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/device/suspend/event-channel = "39"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/control = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/control/feature-balloon = "1"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/vncterm-pid = "7275"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/console = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/console/vnc-port = "5900"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/console/tc-port = "9500"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/name = "Domain-0"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/domid = "0"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/vm = "/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/memory = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/memory/dynamic-min = "761856"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/memory/target = "761856"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/memory/dynamic-max = "761856"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55 = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/frontend = 
"/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/online = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/params = "/dev/sm/backend/a5b07c91-b940-
d1c8-6822-3ef2517cca89/b48cf28a-90ac-4dd4-8121-37555cbb1477"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/state = "4"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/dev = "hda"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/removable = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/mode = "w"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data/scsi = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data/scsi/0x12 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data/scsi/0x12/0x83 = 
"AIMAMQIBAC1YRU5TUkMgIGI0OGNmMjhhLTkwYWMtNGRkNC04MTIxLTM3NTU1Y2JiMTQ3NyA="   
(n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data/scsi/0x12/0x80 = 
"AIAAEmI0OGNmMjhhLTkwYWMtNGQgIA=="   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data/vdi-uuid = 
"b48cf28a-90ac-4dd4-8121-37555cbb1477"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sm-data/mem-pool = "a5b07c91-b940-
d1c8-6822-3ef2517cca89"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/frontend-id = "55"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/type = "phy"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/tools = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/tools/xenops = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/max-ring-page-order = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/physical-device = "fd:0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/hotplug-status = "connected"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/vdi = "["VDI", "a5b07c91-b940-
d1c8-6822-3ef2517cca89\\/b48cf28a-90ac-4dd4-8121-37555cbb1477"]"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/feature-barrier = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sectors = "16777216"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/info = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/sector-size = "512"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768/kthread-pid = "30705"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55 = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/frontend = "/local/domain/55/device/vif/0"   
(n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/frontend-id = "55"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/online = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/state = "4"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/script = "/etc/xensource/scripts/vif"   
(n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/mac = "9a:00:5b:74:2c:f9"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/handle = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/tools = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/tools/xenops = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/feature-sg = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/feature-gso-tcpv4 = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/feature-rx-copy = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/feature-tx-csum-split-header = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/feature-rx-flip = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/feature-smart-poll = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/min-rx-protocol = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/max-rx-protocol = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/max-tx-ring-page-order = "2"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/max-rx-ring-page-order = "2"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0/hotplug-status = "connected"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/0/device-model = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/device-model/55 = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/device-model/55/state = "running"   (n0)
/local/domain/0/error = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/error/backend = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/0/error/backend/vbd = ""   (n0)
/local/domain/55 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/vm = "/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/vss = "/vss/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/name = "FreeBSD 10 pvhvm"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/cpu = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/cpu/0 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/cpu/0/availability = "online"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory/initial-reservation = "1059840"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory/initial-target = "1048576"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory/static-max = "1048576"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory/target = "1048576"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory/dynamic-min = "1048576"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/memory/dynamic-max = "1048576"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/device = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768 = ""   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/backend = "/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/55/768"   
(n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/state = "4"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/backend-id = "0"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/device-type = "disk"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/virtual-device = "768"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/ring-ref = "768"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/max-requests = "32"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/max-request-segments = "11"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/max-request-size = "40960"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/event-channel = "5"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vbd/768/protocol = "x86_64-abi"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0 = ""   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/backend = "/local/domain/0/backend/vif/55/0"   
(n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/backend-id = "0"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/state = "4"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/handle = "0"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/mac = "9a:00:5b:74:2c:f9"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/disconnect = "0"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/tx-ring-ref = "769"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/rx-ring-ref = "770"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/event-channel = "6"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/request-rx-copy = "1"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/feature-rx-notify = "1"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/feature-sg = "1"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/device/vif/0/feature-gso-tcpv4 = "1"   (n55,r0)
/local/domain/55/error = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/drivers = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/control = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/control/platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend = "1"   (n55)
/local/domain/55/attr = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/data = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/data/set_clipboard = "67565ce6-5477-a94f-8dd0-4e9de260f837"   
(n55)
/local/domain/55/messages = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/vm-data = ""   (n55)
/local/domain/55/platform = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/timeoffset = "0"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/nx = "true"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/acpi = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/apic = "true"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/pae = "true"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/viridian = "true"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/vcpu = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/vcpu/number = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/vcpu/current = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/vcpu/0 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/platform/vcpu/0/affinity = "11111111"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/bios-vendor = "Xen"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/bios-version = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/system-manufacturer = "Xen"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/system-product-name = "HVM domU"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/system-version = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/system-serial-number = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/hp-rombios = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/oem-1 = "Xen"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/bios-strings/oem-2 = 
"MS_VM_CERT/SHA1/bdbeb6e0a816d43fa6d3fe8aaef04c2bad9d3e3d"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/unique-domain-id = "3cb0c019-31c3-94ca-52fa-b8013cb86f2b"   
(n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/domid = "55"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/store = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/store/port = "2"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/store/ring-ref = "1044476"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/serial = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/serial/0 = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/serial/0/limit = "65536"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/serial/0/tty = "/dev/pts/2"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/qemu-pid = "30376"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/device-misc = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/device-misc/dm-ready = "1"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/console = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/console/vnc-port = "5901"   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/monitor = ""   (n0,r55)
/local/domain/55/monitor/tty = "/dev/pts/1"   (n0,r55)
/mh = ""   (n0)
/mh/XenSource-TM_XenEnterprise-TM = "XenSource(TM) and XenEnterprise(TM) are 
registered trademarks of XenSource Inc."   (r0)
/mh/boot-time = ""   (n0)
/mh/boot-time/management-mac-address = "00:1a:64:64:59:6c"   (r0)
/vm = ""   (n0)
/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9 = ""   (n0)
/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9/uuid = 
"7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9"   (n0)
/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9/name = "Domain-0"   (n0)
/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9/domains = ""   (n0)
/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9/domains/0 = "/local/domain/0"   (n0)
/vm/7e2d2de7-0380-4362-915d-1c5ddc863fd9/domains/0/create-time = "0"   (n0)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e = ""   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/uuid = 
"f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e"   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/name = "FreeBSD 10 pvhvm"   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/domains = ""   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/domains/55 = "/local/domain/55"   
(n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/domains/55/create-time = 
"1463390856093485"   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/rtc = ""   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/rtc/timeoffset = "0"   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/devices = ""   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/devices/vbd = ""   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/devices/vbd/hda = "1"   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/devices/vif = ""   (n0,r55)
/vm/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e/devices/vif/0 = "1"   (n0,r55)
/squeezed = ""   (n0)
/squeezed/state = ""   (n0)
/squeezed/state/xenopsd = ""   (n0)
/vss = ""   (n0)
/vss/f5b51518-5e6a-5f0b-1539-07e97f91ff6e = ""   (n55)
/xapi = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55 = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vbd = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vbd/768 = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vbd/768/hotplug = "online"   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vif = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vif/0 = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vif/0/vif = "vif55.0"   (n0)
/xapi/55/hotplug/vif/0/hotplug = "online"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd/768 = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd/768/backend-kind = "vbd"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd/768/backend-id = "0"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd/768/dp-id = "vbd/55/hda"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd/768/vdi-id = "[["VDI", "a5b07c91-b940-
d1c8-6822-3ef2517cca89\\/b48cf28a-90ac-4dd4-8121-37555cbb1477"]]"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vbd/768/vbd-id = "hda"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0 = ""   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/backend-kind = "vif"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/backend-id = "0"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/vif-id = "0"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/vif-uuid = "d6223ae3-e894-ed41-45bc-6399ee2ae90c"   
(n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/network-uuid = "cbd2af03-ba8c-4801-8b72-977b9857f1e3"   
(n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/locking-mode = "unlocked"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/MTU = "1500"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/bridge = "xenbr0"   (n0)
/xapi/55/private/vif/0/bridge-MAC = "fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"   (n0)

-- 
Best Regards,
Nasonov Sergey