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 roger@citrix.com 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

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

2013-07-22 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
Hi, On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:29, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com 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

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 roger@citrix.com 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

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 jer...@dckd.nl 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

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 compile this

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 roger@citrix.com 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

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 log of

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.

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-06-10 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.comwrote: 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.

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 roger@citrix.com 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

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 roger@citrix.com 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:

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 roger@citrix.com 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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-28 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.orgwrote: 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

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 those would

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Jeroen van der Ham
On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com 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

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 roger@citrix.com 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

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 roger@citrix.com 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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 23 May 2013 20:30, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.comwrote: On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: Hi, On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com wrote: Right now the code is in a

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 roger@citrix.com mailto:roger@citrix.com wrote: On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: Hi, On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.com

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

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

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 outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné

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 jer...@dckd.nl 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

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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:34 -0500, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com 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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:03 -0500, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com 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

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-23 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Roger Pau Monné roger@citrix.comwrote: 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

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 timer is

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 the

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 pushed a

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 on a

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-16 Thread Tiago Ribeiro
2013/5/16 Sergey Nasonov snaso...@bcc.ru 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.

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

2013-05-13 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 pay

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