From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 20:31:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4D216A41B for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:31:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kps@ucsb.edu) Received: from smtp.ucsb.edu (smtp.ucsb.edu [128.111.24.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D6613C48D for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:31:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kps@ucsb.edu) Received: from splat.oit.ucsb.edu ([128.111.12.20]) by smtp.ucsb.edu with esmtpsa TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 id 1ImEbe-00037t-3i; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:19:34 -0700 From: Kevin Schmidt Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara To: Erik Osterholm Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:19:32 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <48344.172.16.9.1.1192472836.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <1193342809.30674.3.camel@localhost> <20071025201857.GC43606@aleph.cepheid.org> In-Reply-To: <20071025201857.GC43606@aleph.cepheid.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710281319.33309.kps@ucsb.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , Vincent Blondel , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Harrison Grundy Subject: Re: Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kps@ucsb.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:31:30 -0000 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" 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 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