On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:32:17AM -0700, Nathan Friess wrote: > On 16-12-09 07:46 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for the delay, there was a huge can of worms behind this. I have a > > solution, but it requires patching both Xen and the FreeBSD kernel. Please > > bear > > with me, I will send those patches once ready. > > It sounds like you might know this already, but I did some more digging and > here is what I can see so far... > > The important command is "xl devd". Running that under truss, it is trying > to open /dev/xen/xenbus and that was the cause of the No such file error. > It looks like the 10.3 tools used to open /dev/xen/xenstore instead. > > I can get around this by exporting XENSTORED_PATH="/dev/xen/xenstore". > > Now xl devd is stuck at: > > libxl: error: libxl_event.c:639:libxl__ev_xswatch_register: create watch for > path /local/domain/7/backend: Invalid argument > > So it seems like an API issue with asking the kernel or dom0 to set a watch > for new backend devices.
Yes, the current xenstore user-space device on FreeBSD is missing the ability to register xenstore watches. As said, I will hopefully be able to send the patches soon. Thanks, Roger. _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
