FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing
Jeroen van der Ham
jeroen at dckd.nl
Thu May 23 17:22:35 UTC 2013
Hi,
Just remove this line (or pointing to a similar file from the template: (It's part of the disks definition:
> 'file:/root/freebsd-10.iso,hdc:cdrom,r',
Jeroen.
On 23 May 2013, at 19:02, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com>wrote:
>
>> On 23/05/13 18:30, Outback Dingo wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
>>> <mailto:roger.pau at citrix.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com
>>> <mailto:roger.pau at citrix.com>> wrote:
>>>>> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users,
>>> so we
>>>>> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and
>> provide
>>>>> feedback.
>>>>
>>>> I've just been able to install it on a VPS using the latest
>>> pvhvm_v9 branch.
>>>
>>> The branch pvhvm_v9 contains an initial implementation of PV IPIs for
>>> amd64. I've now finished it and I'm going to port it to i386 also,
>> and
>>> push a new branch to the repository.
>>>
>>>> This is good news, because the system I had before actually had
>>> trouble with the HVM kernel from 9.1 [0].
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to leave this running for a while and do some more tests
>>> on it.
>>>>
>>>> Jeroen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=175822
>>>>
>>>
>>> I built the rev_9 branch on a XCP host and rebooted, however I am seeing
>>>
>>> on boot after ugen0.2: <QEMU 0.10.2> at usbus0
>>>
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for
>>> xenbus_nop_confighook_cb
>>> panic: run_interrupt_driven_confighooks: waited too long
>>> cpuid = 0
>>> KDB: enter: panic
>>> [ thread pid 0 tid 100000 ]
>>> Stropped at kdb_enter +0x3b: movq $0,0xad6522(%rip)
>>> db>
>>
>> From what I've read on the list, it seems like you cannot boot the PVHVM
>> kernel if you have a cdrom attached to the guest, could you try
>> disabling the cdrom and booting again?
>>
>>
> great how does one go about disabling the cdrom, i get some disk parameters
> needs to be removed from the vm template before boot
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