Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

Hi, Is there any way of booting FreeBSD 10.x as HVM under Xen? I've tried removing, options XENHVM device xenpci From the kernel - but this just panics on boot now. seems to suggest you can no longer boot 10 under Xen as HVM?

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

Hi Karl, You’re running into the exact same issue as I did. There is way too much outdated documentation. I’ve attempted to contribute a fix: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201787 That bug report contains a working configuration for a VPS that is running FreeBSD 10 in HVM mo

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

El 31/07/15 a les 15.47, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: > > Hi, > > Is there any way of booting FreeBSD 10.x as HVM under Xen? > > I've tried removing, > > options XENHVM > device xenpci > >> From the kernel - but this just panics on boot now. This is a bug then. You should be a

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

On 07/31/2015 09:47, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any way of booting FreeBSD 10.x as HVM under Xen? > > I've tried removing, > > options XENHVM > device xenpci > >> From the kernel - but this just panics on boot now. > >

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

--On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. I'm just setting up another less critical system to reproduce it. To confirm, I just take GENERIC and remove 'XENHV

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

--On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. After removing XENHVM and xenpci - booting a FreeBSD 10.1-p8 AMD64 kernel under XenServer 6.5 gets the output below

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

El 31/07/15 a les 16.38, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: > > > --On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, >> and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. > > I'm just setting up another less critical system to

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

If you have access to the hypervisor, you could also set "xen_platform_pci=0" in the DomU's config. > On 31 Jul 2015, at 16:59, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > > > --On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, >> and

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

El 31/07/15 a les 16.59, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: > > > --On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, >> and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. > > After removing XENHVM and xenpci - booting a FreeBSD

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

--On 31 July 2015 17:09 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: Ouch, I guess this is the Xen HyperV support badly interacting with FreeBSD again. XenServer enables the "viridian" extensions by default, which really messes up with FreeBSD. You should be able to disable the extensions by hand, as reported

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

--On 31 July 2015 17:01 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: Can you technically have a system that has HVM network (i.e. realtek) but still has disk PV, and/or is agile? (i.e. can run xen-tools)? Yes, this is certainly possible. IIRC I posted a patch to the freebsd-xen mailing list in order to do t

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

On 07/31/2015 11:22, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > --On 31 July 2015 17:09 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> Ouch, I guess this is the Xen HyperV support badly interacting with >> FreeBSD again. XenServer enables the "viridian" extensions by default, >> which really messes up with FreeBSD. You should