Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:54:31 -0500 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Nathan Friess <nathan.friess@gmail.com>, freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 11-RELEASE acting as vbd backend Message-ID: <CAKYr3zw90=h_wQ5SWsafmGczBRUS0T-U9Tmy67RY9a20WCR9Mw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161215173432.3qjzilzot7lnddhm@dhcp-3-221.uk.xensource.com> References: <247e5b6c-2713-27cf-f8fa-61e55c9e2025@gmail.com> <20161206100414.pi7ep2zbkduhuol7@dhcp-3-221.uk.xensource.com> <39e43ae4-6388-c698-c3c2-43cbc1f7b93c@gmail.com> <20161209144630.dfga5mozh72veo4g@dhcp-3-221.uk.xensource.com> <584ADC91.8050909@gmail.com> <20161212103257.tg46q2s3j5riixp5@dhcp-3-221.uk.xensource.com> <20161215173432.3qjzilzot7lnddhm@dhcp-3-221.uk.xensource.com>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <roger.pau@citrix.co= m> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:32:57AM +0000, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:32:17AM -0700, Nathan Friess wrote: >> > On 16-12-09 07:46 AM, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 wrote: >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > Sorry for the delay, there was a huge can of worms behind this. I ha= ve a >> > > solution, but it requires patching both Xen and the FreeBSD kernel. = Please bear >> > > with me, I will send those patches once ready. >> > >> > It sounds like you might know this already, but I did some more diggin= g and >> > here is what I can see so far... >> > >> > The important command is "xl devd". Running that under truss, it is t= rying >> > to open /dev/xen/xenbus and that was the cause of the No such file err= or. >> > It looks like the 10.3 tools used to open /dev/xen/xenstore instead. >> > >> > I can get around this by exporting XENSTORED_PATH=3D"/dev/xen/xenstore= ". >> > >> > Now xl devd is stuck at: >> > >> > libxl: error: libxl_event.c:639:libxl__ev_xswatch_register: create wat= ch for >> > path /local/domain/7/backend: Invalid argument >> > >> > So it seems like an API issue with asking the kernel or dom0 to set a = watch >> > for new backend devices. >> >> Yes, the current xenstore user-space device on FreeBSD is missing the ab= ility to >> register xenstore watches. As said, I will hopefully be able to send the= patches >> soon. > > OK, I finally have this ready, you will need the following patches for Fr= eeBSD, > which I pushed to my git repo on top of current HEAD: > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/freebsd.git add_watches_xenstore > > You can either compile a kernel from this branch or pickup the 4 top patc= hes > and apply them to your local tree (I don't think you are going to find an= y > conflicts even if the tree is stable/11 or 11.0-RELEASE). > > You should also update your xen-tools package to the latest version, I've= just > updated it to contain the xenstore device path fix: > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=3Drevision&revision=3D428628 > > After this is done, it should just be a matter of launching xendriverdoma= in at > system boot and it should work out of the box. Let me know how this goes. > > Thanks, Roger. SWEEET..... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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