From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 09:29:37 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 CA09A16A418 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:29:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from mta02.xtra.co.nz (mta02.xtra.co.nz [210.54.141.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DC013C480 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:29:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@fubar.geek.nz) Received: from fep04.xtra.co.nz ([172.23.12.41]) by mta01.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20071026085646.CMZW7558.mta01.xtra.co.nz@fep04.xtra.co.nz>; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:56:46 +1300 Received: from serv.int.fubar.geek.nz ([122.57.28.62]) by fep04.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20071026085646.BCTY17371.fep04.xtra.co.nz@serv.int.fubar.geek.nz>; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:56:46 +1300 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:56:44 +1300 From: Andrew Turner To: Erik Osterholm Message-ID: <20071026215644.004a9a8c@hermies.int.fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <20071025201857.GC43606@aleph.cepheid.org> References: <48344.172.16.9.1.1192472836.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <1192629534.2001.9.camel@localhost> <2412.172.16.9.1.1193233712.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <1193236792.2001.48.camel@localhost> <1493.172.16.9.1.1193239311.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <863avztspi.fsf@ds4.des.no> <1193342809.30674.3.camel@localhost> <20071025201857.GC43606@aleph.cepheid.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?UTF-8?B?cmF2?= , Dag-Erling, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Harrison Grundy , Vincent Blondel Subject: Re: Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:29:37 -0000 On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:18:57 -0500 Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:06:49AM +0900, Harrison Grundy wrote: > > 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? I've attempted to boot AMD64 and i386 FreeBSD on an AMD64 Xen 3.0.6 machine. The AMD64 FreeBSD failed in the BTX code with an error similar to [1]. The i386 version of FreeBSD will boot when you remove SMP, PREEMPTION and INVARIANTS from the kernel [2]. There are other problems with it when you do get it to boot. Andrew [1] http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622 [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/076400.html -- Andrew Turner http://fubar.geek.nz/blog/