Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-10-11 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 11/10/13 11:42, Eggert, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > On May 13, 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we >> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide >> feedback. > > any idea if/when this code will b

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-10-11 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On May 13, 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide > feedback. any idea if/when this code will be merged into -CURRENT? Thanks, Lars signature.as

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-07-22 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:40, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: >> Could you also try a HEAD XENHVM kernel (without my patches), to see if >> the issue is related to my changes or to some bug already present in HEAD? It seems I was worrying too soon. I have been putting the system through the wringer s

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-07-22 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 22/07/13 10:40, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:29, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Is your guest running a 32bit or a 64bit kernel? > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD positron.dckd.nl 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 > r+a09eac7-dirty: Wed Jul 17 17:51:10 CEST 2013 > root

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-07-22 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:29, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Is your guest running a 32bit or a 64bit kernel? $ uname -a FreeBSD positron.dckd.nl 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r+a09eac7-dirty: Wed Jul 17 17:51:10 CEST 2013 root@image01:/usr/obj/usr/home/jeroen/freebsd/sys/XENHVM amd64 >

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-07-22 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 22/07/13 09:18, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > After some more testing I thought it would be good to put this into > production for my personal server. I've used pvhvm_v19 and built it without > debugging options and installed it on a FreeBSD 9.1 system. > > I've run into some hiccups w

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-07-22 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, After some more testing I thought it would be good to put this into production for my personal server. I've used pvhvm_v19 and built it without debugging options and installed it on a FreeBSD 9.1 system. I've run into some hiccups with 9.1 user land and a 10-CURRENT kernel, but that's all

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-20 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 20 Jun 2013, at 11:33, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > This is probably due to the fact that we are not properly accounting for > blocked/runnable/offline time. Did you see the same when running the > XENHVM kernel without my patches? > I have a different system on the same platform running

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-20 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 20/06/13 11:20, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > I have this running for a day or so now, but I'm noticing that the load > averages seem a bit off: > > $ uptime > 11:17AM up 17:14, 1 user, load averages: 0.31, 0.27, 0.21 > > This is for a clean install, with just enough installed to comp

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-20 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, I have this running for a day or so now, but I'm noticing that the load averages seem a bit off: $ uptime 11:17AM up 17:14, 1 user, load averages: 0.31, 0.27, 0.21 This is for a clean install, with just enough installed to compile this kernel. In top I'm seeing that the machine is idling

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 19 Jun 2013, at 18:52, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> I guess the kernel-toolchain takes a long time to build…and from what I can >> see it does a clean before rebuilding also. >> >> I'm doing the kernel-toolchain step only now and will report how long it >> took. This seems to be it, that

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 19 Jun 2013, at 18:15, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> >> I've never seen a kernel build take 2 hours, much less 2 hours *longer*. >> Are you talking about buildworld? It would be interesting to know your >> results building st

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 19 Jun 2013, at 18:15, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > I've never seen a kernel build take 2 hours, much less 2 hours *longer*. Are > you talking about buildworld? It would be interesting to know your results > building stable/9 sources in your 10 environment to see if this is just due >

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:44, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> On 19/06/13 14:33, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: >>> >>> On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:20, Roger Pau Monné wrote: That's because Justin recently pushed a commit that changed the a

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:44, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 19/06/13 14:33, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: >> >> On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:20, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> That's because Justin recently pushed a commit that changed the ad >>> translation to ada, you should change your /etc/fstab to ada0p2.

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 19/06/13 14:33, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:20, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> That's because Justin recently pushed a commit that changed the ad >> translation to ada, you should change your /etc/fstab to ada0p2. It's >> commit 526f3ad11acb296481215d7c2915b3f30f1844f6. > >

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:20, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > That's because Justin recently pushed a commit that changed the ad > translation to ada, you should change your /etc/fstab to ada0p2. It's > commit 526f3ad11acb296481215d7c2915b3f30f1844f6. Ah, you may want to update the wiki page also to warn

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 19/06/13 14:16, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > On 19 Jun 2013, at 13:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> >> Could you provide the boot log of the DomU, backtrace, Xen version and >> Dom0 kernel version? > > I did not have a console attached when it rebooted, so I did not have a log > of the initial

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
On 19 Jun 2013, at 13:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > Could you provide the boot log of the DomU, backtrace, Xen version and > Dom0 kernel version? I did not have a console attached when it rebooted, so I did not have a log of the initial boot. Now that I did, I see that it fails to mount its r

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 19/06/13 13:13, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > I've just built a new kernel based on pvhvm_v17, but it panicked on boot. > > I still have a xen console attached, so I can provide additional information > if someone gives me the right commands. > > Jeroen. > Could you provide the boot

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-19 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, I've just built a new kernel based on pvhvm_v17, but it panicked on boot. I still have a xen console attached, so I can provide additional information if someone gives me the right commands. Jeroen. ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-13 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 10/06/13 16:48, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v14 that contains support for live > migration. While there I've also rebased the changes on top of current > HEAD, so now it contains the recent fixes to blkfront and netfront. > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitwe

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-10 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 10/06/13 17:09, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Roger Pau Monné > wrote: > > Hello, > > I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v14 that contains support for live > migration. While there I've also rebased the changes on top o

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-10 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v14 that contains support for live > migration. While there I've also rebased the changes on top of current > HEAD, so now it contains the recent fixes to blkfront and netfront. > > > http://xenbi

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-10 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v14 that contains support for live migration. While there I've also rebased the changes on top of current HEAD, so now it contains the recent fixes to blkfront and netfront. http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/royger/freebsd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/p

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-30 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 30 May 2013, at 16:56, Outback Dingo wrote: > first is this a public vm ? and if so who is?? > May 29 23:42:30 image01 sshd[31227]: error: Received disconnect from > 150.165.15.175: 11: Bye Bye [preauth] > > because it is after this potential ssh login attempt, so is this you, has > there

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-30 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 30 May 2013, at 11:04, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > So it looks like the system rebooted (but it was not a crash or a > > sporadic reboot? the kernel seems to be aware of the reboot request). It > > would be interesting if you

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-30 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 30 May 2013, at 11:04, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > So it looks like the system rebooted (but it was not a crash or a > sporadic reboot? the kernel seems to be aware of the reboot request). It > would be interesting if you could provide the output of the serial > console when this happens, tha

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-30 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 30/05/13 10:50, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 23 May 2013, at 19:41, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v10 that contains a PV IPI >> implementation for both amd64 and i386. I've also updated the wiki to >> point to the pvhvm_v10 branch: > > I'v

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-30 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 23 May 2013, at 19:41, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v10 that contains a PV IPI > implementation for both amd64 and i386. I've also updated the wiki to > point to the pvhvm_v10 branch: I've been running a VM with this kernel for about a week now. It

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On May 28, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Craig Rodrigues > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: >> >>> >>> I wrote a blog post specifically for installing 10-CURRENT from a snapshot ISO and getting bootstrapped

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > >> >> I wrote a blog post specifically for installing 10-CURRENT from a >>> snapshot ISO and getting bootstrapped >>> from there, to help the Google Summer of Code Student that

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > > I wrote a blog post specifically for installing 10-CURRENT from a snapshot >> ISO and getting bootstrapped >> from there, to help the Google Summer of Code Student that I am mentoring. >> What specifically do you want to be backported to 9-

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Craig Rodrigues >> wrote: >> >>> I wrote this blog post: >>> >>> >>> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rodrigc/2013/05/24/setting-up-a-vm-

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Craig Rodrigues > wrote: > >> I wrote this blog post: >> >> >> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rodrigc/2013/05/24/setting-up-a-vm-for-doing-gsoc-work/ >> >> for the steps how to do it. You can follow those

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 24/05/13 12:11, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 23/05/13 21:09, Colin Percival wrote: >> On 05/23/13 02:06, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> On 22/05/13 22:03, Colin Percival wrote: Testing on a cr1.8xlarge EC2 instance, I get Xen 4.2, but it ends up with a panic -- console output below. I can

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Roger Pau Monné >wrote: > > > On 23/05/13 15:20, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné > wrote: > > >> Also, I've created a wiki page that explains how to set up a

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-24 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 23/05/13 15:20, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> Also, I've created a wiki page that explains how to set up a FreeBSD > >> PVHVM for testing: > >> > >> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Test

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-24 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 23/05/13 21:09, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/23/13 02:06, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> On 22/05/13 22:03, Colin Percival wrote: >>> Testing on a cr1.8xlarge EC2 instance, I get Xen 4.2, but it ends up with >>> a panic -- console output below. I can get a backtrace and possibly even >>> a dump if

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-24 Thread Yuriy Kohut
Hi, I've just successfully run FreeBSD 9.1 based guest with 'pvhvm_v8' based kernel under Xen 4.2.2. So I couldn't confirm any issue with the kernel both on Xen 3.4.4 and 4.2.2. Nice Job. Hypervisor details: # xm info host : release: 3.8.7-1.el6xen ver

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > Recently Justin T Gibbs, Will Andrews and myself have been working on > improving the Xen support in FreeBSD. The main goal of this was to bring > full PVHVM support to FreeBSD, right now FreeBSD is only using PV > interfaces for

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:03 -0500, Outback Dingo > wrote: > >> actually this tells you how to remove/eject the virtual iso, not the cdrom >> device from the VM itself in XCP >> >> > gah! you're completely right! However, the bottom picture w

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:03 -0500, Outback Dingo wrote: actually this tells you how to remove/eject the virtual iso, not the cdrom device from the VM itself in XCP gah! you're completely right! However, the bottom picture with the red box showing "click here to create a dvd drive" is wh

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:34 -0500, Outback Dingo > wrote: > > >> Thanks, but this is XCP not a generic XEN server where there are vm config >> files under /etc/xen/ in XCP they dont exists >> > > This should cover it > > http://support.citri

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:34 -0500, Outback Dingo wrote: Thanks, but this is XCP not a generic XEN server where there are vm config files under /etc/xen/ in XCP they dont exists This should cover it http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132411 ___

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, I've pushed a new branch, pvhvm_v10 that contains a PV IPI implementation for both amd64 and i386. I've also updated the wiki to point to the pvhvm_v10 branch: http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/royger/freebsd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pvhvm_v10 I've updated my tree to latest HEAD,

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > Just remove this line (or pointing to a similar file from the template: > (It's part of the disks definition: > > > 'file:/root/freebsd-10.iso,hdc:cdrom,r', > > Thanks, but this is XCP not a generic XEN server where there

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, Just remove this line (or pointing to a similar file from the template: (It's part of the disks definition: > 'file:/root/freebsd-10.iso,hdc:cdrom,r', Jeroen. On 23 May 2013, at 19:02, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> On 23/05/13

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 23/05/13 18:30, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné > > wrote: > > > > On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 23/05/13 18:30, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné > wrote: > > On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné >

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 23 May 2013 20:30, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > >> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users t

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > >> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users t

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we >> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide >> feedback. > > I've just been able to insta

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 23/05/13 15:20, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Also, I've created a wiki page that explains how to set up a FreeBSD >> PVHVM for testing: >> >> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Testing_FreeBSD_PVHVM > > > You mention on that page that it is easier t

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Also, I've created a wiki page that explains how to set up a FreeBSD > PVHVM for testing: > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Testing_FreeBSD_PVHVM You mention on that page that it is easier to install on 10.0-CURRENT snapshots. What are the issues w

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > Hi, > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > > would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide > > feedback. > > I've just b

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide > feedback. I've just been able to install it on a VPS using the latest pvhvm_v9 branch. This is g

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 22/05/13 22:03, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/22/13 04:45, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> On 18/05/13 17:44, Colin Percival wrote: >>> That seems to work. dmesg is attached. Are there any particular tests >>> you'd like me to run? >> >> I have not tested ZFS, that might be a good one. If you are ru

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-22 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/22/13 04:45, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 18/05/13 17:44, Colin Percival wrote: >> That seems to work. dmesg is attached. Are there any particular tests >> you'd like me to run? > > I have not tested ZFS, that might be a good one. If you are running this > on Xen 3.4 the behaviour should be

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-22 Thread Yuriy Kohut
Hi, I've just successfully run FreeBSD 9.1 based guest with 'pvhvm_v8' based kernel under Xen 3.4.4. Hypervisor details: # xm info host : *** release: 2.6.18-348.2.1.el5xen version: #1 SMP Tue Mar 5 17:05:33 EST 2013 machine:

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-22 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 18/05/13 17:44, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/18/13 02:50, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> On 17/05/13 05:07, Colin Percival wrote: >>> On 05/16/13 17:43, Roger Pau Monné wrote: Thanks for testing this on EC2, could you post the full dmesg? So I can see the hypervisor version and if the PV t

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-18 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/18/13 02:50, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 17/05/13 05:07, Colin Percival wrote: >> On 05/16/13 17:43, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> Thanks for testing this on EC2, could you post the full dmesg? So I can >>> see the hypervisor version and if the PV timer is loaded or not. >> >> Here's what I get

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-18 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 17/05/13 05:07, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/16/13 17:43, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Thanks for testing this on EC2, could you post the full dmesg? So I can >> see the hypervisor version and if the PV timer is loaded or not. > > Here's what I get on a cc2.8xlarge with boot_verbose=YES: I've pu

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/16/13 17:43, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Thanks for testing this on EC2, could you post the full dmesg? So I can > see the hypervisor version and if the PV timer is loaded or not. Here's what I get on a cc2.8xlarge with boot_verbose=YES: > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... > -\|/

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 16/05/13 19:55, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/13/13 11:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we >> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide >> feedback. >> >> The code is available in the following git repos

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/13/13 11:32, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, so we > would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide > feedback. > > The code is available in the following git repository, under the branch > pvhvm_v5: > > http:/

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Sergey Nasonov
On Thursday 16 May 2013 06:56:47 Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2013 05:45:35 -0500, Roger Pau Monné > > wrote: > > Thanks for testing this, I'm afraid I'm not really familiar with > > XenServer or XenCenter. It looks like Linux users are also running into > > > problems when trying to setu

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Tiago Ribeiro
2013/5/16 Tiago Ribeiro > > > > 2013/5/16 Sergey Nasonov > >> Hello. >> >> I have get problem running XENHVM kernel. >> FreeBSD VM was created based on template "Other install media" >> Fetching from git and compilation was fine. >> >> >> >> Unfortunately I cant copy VM screen output from XenCen

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Tiago Ribeiro
2013/5/16 Sergey Nasonov > Hello. > > I have get problem running XENHVM kernel. > FreeBSD VM was created based on template "Other install media" > Fetching from git and compilation was fine. > > > > Unfortunately I cant copy VM screen output from XenCenter console so write > this by hand. > > > r

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 16 May 2013 05:45:35 -0500, Roger Pau Monné wrote: Thanks for testing this, I'm afraid I'm not really familiar with XenServer or XenCenter. It looks like Linux users are also running into problems when trying to setup Linux PVHVMs on XenServer 6.1: He's hitting a well-known bug tha

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 16/05/13 11:30, Sergey Nasonov wrote: > Hello. > > > > I have get problem running XENHVM kernel. > > FreeBSD VM was created based on template "Other install media" > > Fetching from git and compilation was fine. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately I cant copy VM screen output from XenC

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Sierchio
The Windoze tax is unacceptable for a number of reasons - the primary reason is that I'm not running Windows. I don't think the licensing scheme is unfair for those actually running Windows, mind you. At the AWS Summit, an assertion was made that HVM support might be coming soon for all instance

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/13/13 12:08, Michael Sierchio wrote: > The Windoze tax is unacceptable for a number of reasons - the primary reason > is > that I'm not running Windows. I don't think the licensing scheme is unfair > for > those actually running Windows, mind you. Right, it's definitely annoying having to

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/13/13 11:52, Michael Sierchio wrote: > I think should be encouraged. We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run > FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute > instances. Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM available > for all instance types before th

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > Recently Justin T Gibbs, Will Andrews and myself have been working on > improving the Xen support in FreeBSD. The main goal of this was to bring > full PVHVM support to FreeBSD, right now FreeBSD is only using PV > interfaces