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> References: <48344.172.16.9.1.1192472836.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <1193342809.30674.3.camel@localhost> <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 Smørgrav 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? FWIW, I've tried FreeBSD as an HVM guest on several Linux distros as Dom0, Xen 3.0 (3.0.3, 3.0.4) and 3.1 (3.1.0), using Xen packages and manual compiles. Linux distros included Ubuntu 7.04 and Debian 4. FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 -- release and snapshots -- consistently fail to boot with a looping "BTX halted" and register dump. If there's a way to install stock FreeBSD under Xen HVM, I haven't seen it. Without saying whether this is properly a Xen problem or FBSD BTX problem, my guess is this type of installation will not work until there are BTX changes. -- Kevin Schmidt Office of Information Technology University of California, Santa Barbara North Hall 2124 Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3201 805-893-7779 805-893-5051 FAX kps@ucsb.edu
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