Hi,
After upgrading a FreeBSD domU from 10.3-RELEASE to 11-RELEASE, it seems
that FreeBSD can no longer act as a vbd backend for other domUs.
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My setup before upgrading:
Xen 4.4
dom0: Linux (Debian) with a custom compiled 4.2 kernel
FreeBSD domU: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p7 in hvm mode.
Filesystem is ZFS, with zvols created for other domUs.
xen-guest-tools-4.2.2_1 is installed through pkg.
Other domU: Linux with the same compiled 4.2 kernel in pv mode. Xen
disk configuration is
'format=raw,vdev=xvda1,backendtype=phy,backend=FREEBSD,access=w,target=/dev/zvol/.../rootfs'
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Now that FreeBSD 11-RELEASE is out I upgraded it in place. After
upgrading FreeBSD the other Linux domU can no longer find /dev/xvda1 to
mount as its root. It hangs at boot waiting for the device to appear.
While the Linux domU is waiting for the vbd I ran xenstore-ls in dom0 to
see what is going on. The backend appears in FreeBSD and the frontend
in the Linux domU, but FreeBSD shows state=2 and Linux shows state=3.
FreeBSD backend:
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd = "" (n0,r6)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7 = "" (n0,r6)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713 = "" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/frontend =
"/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/params = "/dev/zvol/.../rootfs"
(n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/script = "/etc/xen/scripts/block"
(n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/frontend-id = "7" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/online = "1" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/removable = "0" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/bootable = "1" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/state = "2" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/dev = "xvda1" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/type = "phy" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/mode = "w" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/device-type = "disk" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/feature-barrier = "1" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/feature-flush-cache = "1" (n6,r7)
/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713/max-ring-page-order = "5" (n6,r7)
Linux frontend:
/local/domain/7/device/vbd = "" (n0,r7)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713 = "" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/backend =
"/local/domain/6/backend/vbd/7/51713" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/backend-id = "6" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/state = "3" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/virtual-device = "51713" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/device-type = "disk" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/protocol = "x86_64-abi" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/ring-ref = "8" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/event-channel = "15" (n7,r6)
/local/domain/7/device/vbd/51713/feature-persistent = "1" (n7,r6)
When the vbd was working in 10.3, the backend also shows the following:
/local/domain/8/backend/vbd/9/51713/hotplug-status = "connected" (n8,r9)
/local/domain/8/backend/vbd/9/51713/sectors = "41943040" (n8,r9)
/local/domain/8/backend/vbd/9/51713/info = "0" (n8,r9)
/local/domain/8/backend/vbd/9/51713/sector-size = "512" (n8,r9)
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In case there is a version incompatibility with the new FreeBSD, I later
upgraded Xen to 4.7 and dom0 to a Linux 4.4 kernel. This did not help.
How might I get this setup working again?
Thanks,
Nathan
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