Time goes backwards

2009-01-29 Thread Julian Stecklina
2009 Sun Jan 25 00:58:27 UTC 2009 Sun Jan 25 00:49:49 UTC 2009 Sun Jan 25 00:49:50 UTC 2009 It should increase every second, shouldn't it? ;) MfG, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express c

kern.hz = 10

2009-01-29 Thread Julian Stecklina
vif/0 on xenbus0 xn0: Ethernet address: aa:00:4b:17:23:8e [XEN] netfront_backend_changed: newstate=2 Btw, it is very cool to see FreeBSD on Xen. :) Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express comp

Re: kern.hz = 10

2009-01-29 Thread Julian Stecklina
o BLITZXEN) from 8-CURRENT. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp) ___

Re: Time goes backwards

2009-01-29 Thread Julian Stecklina
to convince the admin of the box and report back. ;) But it should really be properly fixed as it is quite a showstopper. I don't dare to build ports on that box (or do anything else involving make...). Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be

Re: kern.hz = 10

2009-01-30 Thread Julian Stecklina
Ivan Voras writes: > 2009/1/30 Julian Stecklina : >> Mister Olli writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've never experimented with the kern.hz variable, but on all >>> configuration examples for 8-CURRENT if always seen 'kern.hz=100'.

Re: Install FreeBSD-7.1 (domU) to a filesystem image

2009-01-31 Thread Julian Stecklina
her file-backed disk and build CURRENT on that from the provided image. MfG, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp) ___

Re: Time goes backwards

2009-02-02 Thread Julian Stecklina
etc/rc.conf' and add the following lines > # NTP stuff > ntpdate_enable="YES" > ntpdate_flags="-b " > ntpd_enable="YES" > - reboot domU > > If you try it on your problem, could you please give me some feedback if > it worked? Doesn&

Re: Time goes backwards

2009-02-05 Thread Julian Stecklina
, when I do 'reboot' in the virtual machine, it just stops and has to be recreated. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. -

Xen in Virtual Machine?

2009-02-09 Thread Julian Stecklina
mentioned VMMs. Has someone already done this or am I out of luck and have to get a real test box? Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. - Erik

Re: Xen in Virtual Machine?

2009-02-09 Thread Julian Stecklina
undamental reason that > paravirtualized guests should not work there. I'll try VMWare. Thanks for the advice. I am still puzzled why Xen presents such a problem for hardware-virtualization based VMMs. Maybe the virtualization guys at our university can clear that up... Regards, -- Julian Steckl

Re: Xen in Virtual Machine?

2009-02-09 Thread Julian Stecklina
Kip Macy writes: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Julian Stecklina wrote: >> Kip Macy writes: >> >> I'll try VMWare. Thanks for the advice. I am still puzzled why Xen >> presents such a problem for hardware-virtualization based VMMs. Maybe >> the vir

Re: Time goes backwards

2009-02-16 Thread Julian Stecklina
er in building a virtual Xen test box. *bummer* Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't. - Erik

Re: Building/Installing CURRENT as domU

2009-02-24 Thread Julian Stecklina
disk image, use make buildworld buildkernel installworld installkernel distribution DESTDIR=/foo KERNCONF=XEN and fiddle in /etc until you have a working system, like with every from-source install. I had no problems with that. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Always code as if the guy who ends up m

Re: We'd like to help with Xen

2009-04-04 Thread Julian Stecklina
he start would be to pick a bug and > start analyzing it. Then, you can ask and get answers on the concrete > questions you would have with the code. Note that for the general > questions, not specific to the Xen bits, hackers@ or current@ may > be the better forums due to wider audienc

Re: We'd like to help with Xen

2009-04-04 Thread Julian Stecklina
Mister Olli writes: > hi julian, > > On Sa, 2009-04-04 at 19:25 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> The time jumping problem may be a good candidate, as it is quite a >> showstopper for me and at least some other people. > > Do you

Re: FreeBSD on domU, now

2009-04-22 Thread Julian Stecklina
ff anywhere? Is there a possibility of setting the stuff up > from grounds up without having to keep a separate FreeBSD box for > building bootstrap? So far a separate FreeBSD build box is the best way to go. You can set this up in the virtualization solution of your choice. VirtualBox and KVM wo

Re: FreeBSD-Xen Current updates

2009-05-18 Thread Julian Stecklina
and this allows my Xen DomU to finish booting and start running. > > I've noticed that buildworlds seem to fail because of weird time > related issues. Has anyone else seen some weird clock behaviour? Yes (after some minutes the clock jumps to some constant point in the past). But I have

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Julian Stecklina
endable > in their entirety (ala V6 and Minix). You can use microkernels[1] for almost the same thing. It's what we do at Technische Universität Dresden. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cle

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Julian Stecklina
. And actually it did: L4Linux exists for quite some time and I believe that there was also a paper on live migration of L4Linux instances way before Xen did that. IMHO given some commercial support (and some foresight), L4 could have been the better Xen. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina The day Micros

Re: Update: Xen, networking, RTC and clocks

2009-05-28 Thread Julian Stecklina
te it if people updated to the latest -current and > tested Xen out. I'll try to do that in the next couple of days. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge