Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-06 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 06/08/15 a les 15.06, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: > > --On 06 August 2015 13:46 +0200 Roger Pau Monné > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Sorry for the delay, as usual I've been busy with a bunch of other >> stuff. You can find the patch against HEAD here: >> >> https://people.freebsd.org/~royger/0001-xen

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-06 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 06 August 2015 13:46 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: Hello, Sorry for the delay, as usual I've been busy with a bunch of other stuff. You can find the patch against HEAD here: https://people.freebsd.org/~royger/0001-xen-allow-disabling-PV-disks-and- nics.patch The description is self-ex

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-06 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 05/08/15 a les 12.25, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: > > > --On 31 July 2015 17:01 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >> Yes, this is certainly possible. IIRC I posted a patch to the >> freebsd-xen mailing list in order to do that. I will try to find/refresh >> it and post it again so you can try it. I

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-08-05 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 31 July 2015 17:01 +0200 Roger Pau Monné wrote: Yes, this is certainly possible. IIRC I posted a patch to the freebsd-xen mailing list in order to do that. I will try to find/refresh it and post it again so you can try it. It might have to wait until Monday however, since I'm quite busy

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Adam McDougall
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

Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--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?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--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?

2015-07-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
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?

2015-07-31 Thread Sydney Meyer
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?

2015-07-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
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?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--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?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
--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?

2015-07-31 Thread Adam McDougall
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?

2015-07-31 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
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?

2015-07-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
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

Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

2015-07-31 Thread Karl Pielorz
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?