Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-13 Thread Miguel Clara
I was just trying too boot Freebsd Xen dom0 on a laptop but I just get a black screen after the boot process any idea what it could be? the system boots fine wihtout loading boot/xen, I'm not sure how to get more info with the black scren! thanks Melhores Cumprimentos // Best Regards

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-09 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, El 08/12/14 a les 23.45, David P. Discher ha escrit: SNIP Sent SIGTERM to all processes │ Sent SIGKILL to all processes───┘ Requesting system reboot [ 1157.299205]

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-09 Thread David P. Discher
ah, sorry missed that. Will try that today. AHCI lasted over night with MSI off. Something I noticed, is that when the AHCI bus was timing out, it looked like the Xen Kernel was re-scanning the PCI bus. (Sorry, didn’t save these logs). I’ve love to dig into this further. Please let

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-08 Thread David P. Discher
I tried all the combinations of things … and still couldn’t get the xen console switch to work. I finally googled xen X8STi console”, and found - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Serial_Console - which calls out the super micro board X8STi - with the options: com1=115200,8n1,0x3e8,5 I don’t

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-05 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 04/12/14 a les 22.28, David P. Discher ha escrit: Update: So, I changed a few things, and stuff is working better. The Xen kernel line is now: dom0_mem=2048M dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0pvh=1 sync_console com1=115200,8n1,0x3e8 console=vga,com1 iommu=debug I would advise against

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-04 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, El 04/12/14 a les 3.27, David P. Discher ha escrit: So, the “working” part … the hypervisor up, and Dom0 running, is correct. However, after ~5 minutes, the AHCI buses timeout. This seems to be constantly reproducible via Dom0. FreeBSD on the this bare metal does’t have this

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-04 Thread David P. Discher
On Dec 4, 2014, at 12:46 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Hello, El 04/12/14 a les 3.27, David P. Discher ha escrit: So, the “working” part … the hypervisor up, and Dom0 running, is correct. However, after ~5 minutes, the AHCI buses timeout. This seems to be

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-04 Thread David P. Discher
Update: So, I changed a few things, and stuff is working better. The Xen kernel line is now: dom0_mem=2048M dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0pvh=1 sync_console com1=115200,8n1,0x3e8 console=vga,com1 iommu=debug Also note, I have these set in FreeBSD: console=comconsole vidconsole

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-03 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, El 02/12/14 a les 22.26, David P. Discher ha escrit: On Dec 2, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: SNIP Below is the boot. One thing I’m not getting, is serial output from the Xen kernel. The IPMI SOL is on 0x3e8 (com3), and using com3 doesn’t seem to get

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-03 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, El 03/12/14 a les 18.18, David P. Discher ha escrit: On Dec 3, 2014, at 5:47 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: The good news is that I think I have a patch that solves this, but I'm afraid we will also have to debug the ACPI error shown above in order to get your

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-03 Thread David P. Discher
On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Thanks for being able to test this so quickly, AFAICT this is a fallout from failing to initialize ACPI. I don't have a system with this specific ACPI configuration to trigger this, but I have the following patch,

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-03 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 03/12/14 a les 20.35, David P. Discher ha escrit: On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Thanks for being able to test this so quickly, AFAICT this is a fallout from failing to initialize ACPI. I don't have a system with this specific ACPI

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-03 Thread David P. Discher
So, the “working” part … the hypervisor up, and Dom0 running, is correct. However, after ~5 minutes, the AHCI buses timeout. This seems to be constantly reproducible via Dom0. FreeBSD on the this bare metal does’t have this issue. - David P. Discher http://davidpdischer.com/ AIM: DavidDPD |

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-02 Thread David P. Discher
On Dec 2, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Hello, Thanks for trying it out. I’ve been excited about FreeBSD Dom0 for 4+ years … and excited to see progress. Once I can get it working, I’ll work on the 4th loader for auto booting xen+freebsd. I assume that

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-02 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:26 PM, David P. Discher d...@dpdtech.com wrote: Can you or someone point me to how to get the line numbers ? Since this is panic-ing before swap on/dumpon … I’m not sure out to get the dump and load into kgdb with the symbols. My guess is that I need to use remote

Re: Attempting to Get Xen FreeBSD Dom0 working

2014-12-02 Thread David P. Discher
sweet - thanks - Will - As far as what’s built - it is git://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/freebsd.git with branch pvh_dom0_v8: root@borg:/usr/src # git status On branch pvh_dom0_v8 Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/pvh_dom0_v8’. […] And the line numbers: