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 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. Thanks, Lars sig

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" > 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 14:06, "Eggert, Lars" 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: /dev/da1s1a: No s

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

2013-09-09 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Sep 9, 2013, at 14:16, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Performance will probably be better on most workloads with PVHVM if you > have HAP (Intel's Extended Page Table or AMD's Nested Page Tables). And > also, i386 PV port is limited to only one vcpu, while PVHVM will allow > you to use as many v

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 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

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 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, and resource require

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" > > T

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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 i