Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-09-03 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Kai Otto wrote: > On 13/08/18 19:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Kai Otto wrote: > >> On 30/07/18 12:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >>> Packages for Xen 4.11 are now available in pkg. > >>> > >>> Remember that in

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-08-25 Thread Kai Otto
On 13/08/18 19:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Kai Otto wrote: >> On 30/07/18 12:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> Packages for Xen 4.11 are now available in pkg. >>> >>> Remember that in order to use those you need a very recent FreeBSD >>> kernel (r336475 or

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-08-13 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Kai Otto wrote: > On 30/07/18 12:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > Packages for Xen 4.11 are now available in pkg. > > > > Remember that in order to use those you need a very recent FreeBSD > > kernel (r336475 or newer) and the Xen command line has slightly

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-08-13 Thread Kai Otto
On 30/07/18 12:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Packages for Xen 4.11 are now available in pkg. > > Remember that in order to use those you need a very recent FreeBSD > kernel (r336475 or newer) and the Xen command line has slightly changed, > so dom0=pvh must be used instead of dom0pvh in order to

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-30 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:04:44AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: [...] > After introducing PVHv2 PVHv1 was deprecated and PVHv1 has been > removed from the hypervisor in recent versions, that's why the Xen > ports package is still stuck with Xen 4.7, because later versions > removed PVHv1 support.

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-20 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:46:07PM +, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Today I've merged PVHv2 support into FreeBSD, allowing FreeBSD to be > > > used as a PVHv2 DomU and Dom0.

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:46:07PM +, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Today I've merged PVHv2 support into FreeBSD, allowing FreeBSD to be > > used as a PVHv2 DomU and Dom0. While it's not a huge set of changes, > > I would *really*

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 02:03:00PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Roger Pau Monné wrote on 2018/07/19 11:04: > > Hello, > > > > Today I've merged PVHv2 support into FreeBSD, allowing FreeBSD to be > > used as a PVHv2 DomU and Dom0. While it's not a huge set of changes, > > I would *really*

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > Today I've merged PVHv2 support into FreeBSD, allowing FreeBSD to be > used as a PVHv2 DomU and Dom0. While it's not a huge set of changes, > I would *really* appreciate if people could test the code starting > from r336474 (or any later

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Roger Pau Monné wrote on 2018/07/19 11:04: Hello, Today I've merged PVHv2 support into FreeBSD, allowing FreeBSD to be used as a PVHv2 DomU and Dom0. While it's not a huge set of changes, I would *really* appreciate if people could test the code starting from r336474 (or any later changeset).

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Gerd Hafenbrack
Thank you. Roger Pau Monné schrieb am Do., 19. Juli 2018, 11:50: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Gerd Hafenbrack wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Roger Pau Monné schrieb am Do., 19. Juli 2018, > 11:05: > > > > > ... Later on, we sadly discovered > > > that PVHv1 was still too similar to

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Gerd Hafenbrack wrote: > Hello, > > Roger Pau Monné schrieb am Do., 19. Juli 2018, 11:05: > > > ... Later on, we sadly discovered > > that PVHv1 was still too similar to classic PV, and didn't allow Xen > > to make use of all the possible hardware

Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Gerd Hafenbrack
Hello, Roger Pau Monné schrieb am Do., 19. Juli 2018, 11:05: > ... Later on, we sadly discovered > that PVHv1 was still too similar to classic PV, and didn't allow Xen > to make use of all the possible hardware virtualization extensions, so > PVHv2 was introduced ~2 years ago ... > Is there a

HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans

2018-07-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, Today I've merged PVHv2 support into FreeBSD, allowing FreeBSD to be used as a PVHv2 DomU and Dom0. While it's not a huge set of changes, I would *really* appreciate if people could test the code starting from r336474 (or any later changeset). I expect there's going to be some confusion