Re: HOWTO: xen tools within FreeBSD domU
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:47:25 + (UTC) Janne Snabb sn...@epipe.com wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Nick Sayer wrote: If no one else is working on it, I might take a cut at a xen-domU-tools port that does what that page lists. I say give it a shot. It would be useful. Send me a message if you wish me to check/review the port before you send-pr it. In addition to patching the xenstore device name, I suppose that the shared library version numbering should be changed to match what it says in the Porters Handbook[1]: Try to keep shared library version numbers in the libfoo.so.0 format. Our runtime linker only cares for the major (first) number. This probably requires patching tools/xenstore/Makefile. [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/special.html#PORTING-SHLIBS Ping/CC me if you have any questions on the ports side. -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD user Intellectual Property is nowhere near as valuable as Intellect FreeBSD committer - ite...@freebsd.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: XENHVM amd64 mouse issue
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Nick Sayer wrote: I have 8.2-RC2 + the netfront patch and a XENHVM kernel. I note that I wind up with both ums0 and psm0, but it turns out neither appears to work. My VNC console works for text video and keyboard, but trying to run a moused for either device doesn't result in the text console mouse pointer moving. Mouse clicks do appear to do something, however. I don't ever see the psm device show up in the vmstat -i output, FWIW. I do not use a mouse much with Xen myself and have not had issues with it when I had to, but in the past people have reported a lot of issues with Xen and broken mouse. The solution for some people seems to be to use a tablet emulation instead of mouse. Google for xen tablet. I do not know if FreeBSD has the corresponding driver and moused support, but it might be worth checking out. -- Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications sn...@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/ ___ 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
Re: xn0: Error 2 parsing device/vif/0/mac [PATCH]
On 1/15/2011 3:12 AM, Janne Snabb wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Janne Snabb wrote: It appears that that the netfront driver fails to get the vif mac address which leads to panic shortly afterwards. The patch at the bottom of this message solves the problem for me. After that the current 8.2RC2 system works fine on amd64 with XENHVM kernel with Xen 4.0.1 (have not tested other versions). If the mac node does not appear in the front-end vif directory (does it ever appear there? in my experience no), we fetch a link to the backend directory for the same vif and try to get the mac node from there. I am not sure if this is the proper way to fix this, but it works for me. As with most things Xen, there is no official specification for what xenstore nodes are where. If we assume the Linux driver is the definitive reference, then the current FreeBSD driver behavior is correct: http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?file/5e08fff8dc05/drivers/xen/netfront/netfront.c See talk_to_backend() and the xen_net_read_mac() function. There are two environments that setup the xenstore nodes: the Xen cloud platform, and the more common phython tool stack (aka xend). I haven't reviewed XCP, but Xend populates the MAC node in the frontend's tree unless the ioemu tag is in the VIF configuration line for that interface. Why this is the case, I have no idea - again the behavior is not documented. However, it seems reasonable to do what you've done in this patch and to rely on the backend's copy if the frontend's doesn't exist. It would also be good to add support to netfront to maintain the mac node in the frontend tree and to allow it to be set just like a real device. I believe netback will pick up and use the updated MAC value if you bounce the Xenbus connection after making the change. -- Justin ___ 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
Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop
The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex joo...@joovke.com To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:29:58 +1100 Confirmed problem still evident in 8.2 RC3 (did a full source csup and buildworld). ___ 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
