From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 29 17:45:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1524E8F; Wed, 29 May 2013 17:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roger.pau@citrix.com) Received: from SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM (smtp.eu.citrix.com [46.33.159.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468F8C01; Wed, 29 May 2013 17:45:32 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,765,1363132800"; d="scan'208";a="5105590" Received: from lonpex01cl03.citrite.net ([10.30.203.103]) by LONPIPO01.EU.CITRIX.COM with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 29 May 2013 17:45:25 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.30] (10.30.203.1) by LONPEX01CL03.citrite.net (10.30.203.103) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Wed, 29 May 2013 18:45:23 +0100 Message-ID: <51A63EB3.5090007@citrix.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 19:45:23 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Wilson Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing References: <5197A1EA.2040404@freebsd.org> <519CAFC7.1070908@citrix.com> <519D24A9.3050407@freebsd.org> <519DDC0A.9000201@citrix.com> <519E6958.6020606@freebsd.org> <519F3CD0.5090405@citrix.com> <51A4D804.9050208@citrix.com> <20130528191855.GA13736@u109add4315675089e695.ant.amazon.com> <51A5229F.80205@freebsd.org> <51A634EC.7050805@citrix.com> <20130529172201.GA20973@u109add4315675089e695.ant.amazon.com> In-Reply-To: <20130529172201.GA20973@u109add4315675089e695.ant.amazon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.30.203.1] Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , "xen-users@lists.xen.org" , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" , Colin Percival , xen-devel X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:45:34 -0000 On 29/05/13 19:22, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Thanks Matt and Colin for the testing and help! I've pushed yet another >> version, now it's branch pvhvm_v12, which I *think* should solve the >> issues with cpuid != acpi_id: >> >> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/royger/freebsd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pvhvm_v12 >> >> Since I'm not able to reproduce the cpuid != acpi_id case, could you >> give it a try and report the results? > > Colin, can you build an AMI with this new kernel? > > [...] > >> On 28/05/13 23:33, Colin Percival wrote: >>> On a cc2.8xlarge EC2 instance, the lines which come after this are >>>> GEOM: new disk xbd1 >>>> GEOM: new disk xbd2 >>>> GEOM: new disk xbd3 >>>> GEOM: new disk xbd4 >>>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a [rw]... >>>> start_init: trying /sbin/init >>> and then the userland boot process; have you made any bug fixes after >>> your pvhvm_v7 which would explain why tasting disks was hanging? >> >> I'm not sure I follow, did you found a regression from previous >> branches? i.e. it used to work with branch pvhvm_v6 and not pvhvm_v7? > > Colin was saying that his local change only moved the boot process a > bit farther for cr1.8xlarge. Perhaps some of the other changes you > made in the latest pvhvm_v12 branch will get the VM all the way up. Oh, sure, more changes where needed in order to get it to work, like using acpi_id to map the vcpu_info and perform the cpu bindings.