Hi Anthony, We figured out the following method for doing automated FreeBSD installs:
- Make a HVM installation of a FreeBSD 8, download source and compile XEN or XENHVM kernels (XEN on i386 and XENHVM on amd64 in the kernel config directory). Install, reboot and that's it, the next steps are for automating and other features. I didn't do any benchmarks but both way was very usable the OS.
- Make another BSD install (appr. a 300-500MB partition) and copy the compiled BSD kernel, which boots off but the kernel will use an other partition for the rootfs.
- The "boot install" is an oldschool bsd slice with labels, as I couldn't yet figure out booting it somehow else. (Suggestions are welcome, of course.)
- The real root file system could be easily set up with and installworld just from compiled system above. This extra setup is a must have for us as this way I was able to do lvm snapshots of UFS.
On the i386 I finished testing off quite soon as SMP is simple does not work and there were maybe some other issues. The amd64 is promising with a 2 way SMP working well but a reliable 4 would be nicer of course.
Keep in mind, that with i386 you'll also get xenconsole, but it didn't worked with amd64 sot the VNC console was used.
I'll continue testing later this month (I hope...). Best regards, Andras Anthony Francis wrote:
Hi Andras, For those of us that are new to FreeBSD, can you please point or provide us with some basic instructions for enabling the PV support on 32-bit and 64-bit 8-Release? Best regards, Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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