Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 12:41:09 +1000 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, bapt@freebsd.org, royger@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xen_kernel, console and X11 Message-ID: <CAKYr3zzGTP88_GM4i8_x8u8Lwy=NWVb8T0x6ddn=gsy0pDJ6mA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150502154340.GA8333@kloomba> References: <20150502154340.GA8333@kloomba>
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On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get Xen running and following these instructions: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xen > > and > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0 > > I'm running two days old -CURRENT and ports. I've installed the > emulators/xen port and followed instructions in pkg-message. > > I'm having some problems with console. I'm wondering if it's possible to > have X running on the same box running xen kernel? > > My setup is as follows: > > - Intel i5-4690 that supports IOMMU: > $ sudo acpidump -t|grep DMAR > DMAR: Length=128, Revision=1, Checksum=90, > $ > - vm.max_wired=-1 in /etc/sysctl.conf > - xc0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure in > /etc/ttys > > In loader.conf I have: > > xen_kernel="/boot/xen" > xen_cmdline="dom0_mem=2048M dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0pvh=1 com1=115200,8n1 > guest_loglvl=all loglvl=all console=com1" > > With this setup I get my system booted and at some point I can see a > login screen. When I type 'startx' the system freezes. Have to hard > reboot it to get working again. > > When I drop 'console=com1' from 'xen_cmdline', I cannot even see a login > screen. All I can see is a black screen with a white cursor. It doesn't > respond to any input though. On the other hand, the system doesn't seem > to be frozen, at least power button triggers an ACPI event for power > off. > I can concur, I am seeing the same thing as the configuration you have follwing that doc this morning. I also have the black screen with the white cursor..... > > Am I hitting some bug or is that some configuration issue? > > Thanks, > > Roman Bogorodskiy >
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