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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:19:32 -0700
From:      Kevin Schmidt <kps@ucsb.edu>
To:        Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Vincent Blondel <vincent@xtra-net.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Harrison Grundy <astrodog@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U.
Message-ID:  <200710281319.33309.kps@ucsb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20071025201857.GC43606@aleph.cepheid.org>
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On Thursday 25 October 2007, Erik Osterholm wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:06:49AM +0900, Harrison Grundy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 12:05 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > > "Vincent Blondel" <vincent@xtra-net.org> writes:
> > > > Can somebody indicate me what settings I have to include in
> > > > GENERIC config file so to compile a Xen Dom/U FreeBSD kernel.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD currently does not support running under Xen.
> >
> > I just thought I'd note that you can use Xen with FreeBSD if your
> > processor supports hardware virtualization, I believe.
>
> I have yet to hear any independant verification of this.  Anyone
> actually running FreeBSD as a domU with hardware virtualization?

=46WIW, I've tried FreeBSD as an HVM guest on several Linux distros as=20
Dom0, Xen 3.0 (3.0.3, 3.0.4) and 3.1 (3.1.0), using Xen packages and=20
manual compiles.  Linux distros included Ubuntu 7.04 and Debian 4. =20
=46reeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 -- release and snapshots -- consistently fail to=20
boot with a looping "BTX halted" and register dump.  If there's a way=20
to install stock FreeBSD under Xen HVM, I haven't seen it.  Without=20
saying whether this is properly a Xen problem or FBSD BTX problem, my=20
guess is this type of installation will not work until there are BTX=20
changes.

=2D-=20
Kevin Schmidt
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