From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 23 16:48:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64901906; Thu, 23 May 2013 16:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roger.pau@citrix.com) Received: from SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM (smtp.eu.citrix.com [46.33.159.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38B4FEC; Thu, 23 May 2013 16:48:19 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,729,1363132800"; d="scan'208";a="4910741" Received: from lonpex01cl02.citrite.net ([10.30.203.102]) by LONPIPO01.EU.CITRIX.COM with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 23 May 2013 16:48:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.30] (10.30.203.1) by LONPEX01CL02.citrite.net (10.30.203.102) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Thu, 23 May 2013 17:48:17 +0100 Message-ID: <519E4850.1090305@citrix.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:16 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Outback Dingo Subject: Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing References: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> <616EE8A8-78BA-46E6-90AA-4A22160289DF@dckd.nl> <519E1AA6.2060808@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.30.203.1] Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , "xen-users@lists.xen.org" , xen-devel , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" , Jeroen van der Ham X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:48:20 -0000 On 23/05/13 18:30, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Roger Pau Monné > wrote: > > On 23/05/13 14:57, Jeroen van der Ham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 13 May 2013, at 20:32, Roger Pau Monné > wrote: > >> Right now the code is in a state where it can be tested by users, > so we > >> would like to encourage FreeBSD and Xen users to test it and provide > >> feedback. > > > > I've just been able to install it on a VPS using the latest > pvhvm_v9 branch. > > The branch pvhvm_v9 contains an initial implementation of PV IPIs for > amd64. I've now finished it and I'm going to port it to i386 also, and > push a new branch to the repository. > > > This is good news, because the system I had before actually had > trouble with the HVM kernel from 9.1 [0]. > > > > I'm going to leave this running for a while and do some more tests > on it. > > > > Jeroen. > > > > > > [0]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=175822 > > > > I built the rev_9 branch on a XCP host and rebooted, however I am seeing > > on boot after ugen0.2: at usbus0 > > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for > xenbus_nop_confighook_cb > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for > xenbus_nop_confighook_cb > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for > xenbus_nop_confighook_cb > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for > xenbus_nop_confighook_cb > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for > xenbus_nop_confighook_cb > panic: run_interrupt_driven_confighooks: waited too long > cpuid = 0 > KDB: enter: panic > [ thread pid 0 tid 100000 ] > Stropped at kdb_enter +0x3b: movq $0,0xad6522(%rip) > db> >From what I've read on the list, it seems like you cannot boot the PVHVM kernel if you have a cdrom attached to the guest, could you try disabling the cdrom and booting again?