Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, I'm trying to run a recent-CURRENT XEN i386 kernel in a Xen 4.2 PV domU. I had to add the following options to the kernel config file in order to compile the XEN kernel: makeoptions WITHOUT_MODULES+=mlx4 mlx4ib mlxen mthca The resulting kernel compiles, but fails to boot. Attached is

Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 09/09/13 11:19, Eggert, Lars wrote: Hi, I'm trying to run a recent-CURRENT XEN i386 kernel in a Xen 4.2 PV domU. I had to add the following options to the kernel config file in order to compile the XEN kernel: makeoptions WITHOUT_MODULES+=mlx4 mlx4ib mlxen mthca The

Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, thanks, let me try your suggestion/patch. On Sep 9, 2013, at 13:53, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: May I ask if there's anything that prevents you from switching to the PVHVM port? I wouldn't recommend using the i386 PV port. I was thinking that performance would be better,

Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 09/09/13 14:06, Eggert, Lars wrote: Hi, thanks, let me try your suggestion/patch. On Sep 9, 2013, at 13:53, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: May I ask if there's anything that prevents you from switching to the PVHVM port? I wouldn't recommend using the i386 PV port. I

Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Sep 9, 2013, at 14:06, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: thanks, let me try your suggestion/patch. I applied the patch and tried booting. That failed (as expected) with a bad pte panic: ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a []... start_init: trying /sbin/init dumpon:

Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 09/09/13 15:13, Eggert, Lars wrote: Hi, On Sep 9, 2013, at 14:06, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: thanks, let me try your suggestion/patch. I applied the patch and tried booting. That failed (as expected) with a bad pte panic: ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a

Re: Xen 4.2 PV fails to boot -CURRENT PV domU

2013-09-09 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Sep 9, 2013, at 16:02, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Applying the patch I've sent and reverting r244237 seems to be enough for me, I can get the guest to boot fine. same here, now that I removed the TARGET_CPUTYPE=core2 flag that had been left over in the local setup.