Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-06 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 06 August 2015 13:46 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Hello, Sorry for the delay, as usual I've been busy with a bunch of other stuff. You can find the patch against HEAD here: https://people.freebsd.org/~royger/0001-xen-allow-disabling-PV-disks-and- nics.patch The

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-06 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 06/08/15 a les 15.06, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: --On 06 August 2015 13:46 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Hello, Sorry for the delay, as usual I've been busy with a bunch of other stuff. You can find the patch against HEAD here:

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-05 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 31 July 2015 17:01 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Yes, this is certainly possible. IIRC I posted a patch to the freebsd-xen mailing list in order to do that. I will try to find/refresh it and post it again so you can try it. It might have to wait until Monday however,

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 31/07/15 a les 16.59, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: --On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. After removing XENHVM and xenpci -

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 31/07/15 a les 16.38, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: --On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. I'm just setting up another less critical

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 31 July 2015 17:01 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Can you technically have a system that has HVM network (i.e. realtek) but still has disk PV, and/or is agile? (i.e. can run xen-tools)? Yes, this is certainly possible. IIRC I posted a patch to the freebsd-xen mailing

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. After removing XENHVM and xenpci - booting a FreeBSD 10.1-p8 AMD64 kernel under XenServer 6.5

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Adam McDougall
On 07/31/2015 11:22, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 31 July 2015 17:09 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Ouch, I guess this is the Xen HyperV support badly interacting with FreeBSD again. XenServer enables the viridian extensions by default, which really messes up with FreeBSD.

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 31 July 2015 17:09 +0200 Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Ouch, I guess this is the Xen HyperV support badly interacting with FreeBSD again. XenServer enables the viridian extensions by default, which really messes up with FreeBSD. You should be able to disable the extensions