Re: FreeBSD 7.0 + Xen 3.1 + HVM: Success!

2008-06-30 Thread Joe Auty
Kip, Does the problem with Xen 3.1 in HVM/Intel manifest as those BTX halted errors (e.g. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-10/msg00014.html) ? If so, do you happen to know whether this problem has been solved in Xen 3.2 or 3.2.1? This message of yours was written this

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 + Xen 3.1 + HVM: Success!

2008-03-06 Thread Kip Macy
I'd just like to observe that due to bugs in their real-mode emulation (only required on intel) FreeBSD won't run on Xen 3.1 in HVM on Intel processors. This longstanding issue was finally fixed very recently in the 3.2 branch. -Kip On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Freddie Cash [EMAIL

FreeBSD 7.0 + Xen 3.1 + HVM: Success!

2008-02-29 Thread Freddie Cash
Just thought I'd pass along that I have successfully installed FreeBSD 7.0 into a Xen 3.1 HVM.  This one went as smooth as I expected, considering my experience with 6.3.  Haven't done any benchmarking or stress testing or port installs or anything.  But so far it's working nicely. Here's all