Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
with this new kernel? Done, ami-95177dfc in us-east-1. This is now booting successfully on cr1.8xlarge; are there any other instance types I should test? I don't know which Xen versions you have deployed across the entire fleet. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
disk xbd2 GEOM: new disk xbd3 GEOM: new disk xbd4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a [rw]... start_init: trying /sbin/init and then the userland boot process; have you made any bug fixes after your pvhvm_v7 which would explain why tasting disks was hanging? -- Colin Percival Security

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-22 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/22/13 04:45, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On 18/05/13 17:44, Colin Percival wrote: That seems to work. dmesg is attached. Are there any particular tests you'd like me to run? I have not tested ZFS, that might be a good one. If you are running this on Xen 3.4 the behaviour should

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-18 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/18/13 02:50, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On 17/05/13 05:07, Colin Percival wrote: On 05/16/13 17:43, Roger Pau Monné wrote: Thanks for testing this on EC2, could you post the full dmesg? So I can see the hypervisor version and if the PV timer is loaded or not. Here's what I get

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
Devices on xenstore0 With a XENHVM kernel from FreeBSD HEAD the next line after that is xbd0: 10240MB Virtual Block Device at device/vbd/768 on xenbusb_front0 Any ideas? -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
mask=03 ostat0=00 ostat1=00 ata1: stat0=0x00 err=0x00 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata1: stat1=0x00 err=0x00 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00 ata1: reset tp2 stat0=00 stat1=00 devices=0x0 -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Colin Percival
this happens? Err... my AMIs run on all EC2 instance types. On some you have to pay the Windows rate, that's all. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Colin Percival
for that... it certainly would be good news. Certainly all the new instance types they've released in the past few years have had UNIX HVM support. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid