Freebsd xen host dom0

[Pratyush Yadav]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:56 PM Steven Friedrich
<steven.e.friedrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a new HP Slimline Desktop 290-p0014 which features an Intel i7-8700
> and no com ports.
> I am hoping to create a FreeBSD xen host to explore various FreeBSD and
> Linux distros.
> I was following along with chapter 21.8 FreeBSD as a Xen -Host.
> I am using handbook rev 52113 modified on 2018-08-12 08:50:20 by eadler.
> I did a fresh install of FreeBSD 11.2, pkg install xen and when I rebooted
> it claimed:
> don't know how to load module '/boot/xen'
> don't know how to load module '/boot/xen'
> (odd that it repeated that)
> can't load 'kernel'
>
> I can boot and turn off booting the xen kernel and FreeBSD comes up fine.
> I used file /boot/xen and it reveals xen is a ELF 32-bit LSB executable,
> Intel 80386 version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
> What am I doing wrong?
> I have previous FreeBSD experience, but it was long ago.  I may have
> forgotten more than I knew 8o)

Are you booting in UEFI mode? If yes, then FreeBSD does not yet
support booting the Xen kernel in UEFI mode. Try booting it in legacy
mode.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav