Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:30:04 GMT From: "Curtis W. Rendon" <curtis.rendon@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/118734: FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 4 fail to boot under Xen fully virtualized Message-ID: <200803012330.m21NU4KN024143@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: "Curtis W. Rendon" <curtis.rendon@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, bsder@allcaps.org
Cc:
Subject: kern/118734: FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 4 fail to boot
under Xen fully virtualized
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:57:41 -0600
>Number: 118734
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 4 fail to boot
under Xen fully virtualized
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 15 22:50:03 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andrew P. Lentvorski
>Release: 6.3 and 7.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
>FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 fail to boot under Xen fully
>virtualized.
>It throws a BTX failure.
>What is the solution for running FreeBSD as a DomU under Xen?
>The system has the Intel virtualization extensions.
Sorry if this has already been addressed:
I work in the XEN project at AMD and have seen this same issue.
What I do to get around it is to boot with acpi disabled.
You won't be able to get multiple vcpus, but the system will work otherwise.
Curtis
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