From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 14:16:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411FF848 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:16:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeroen@dckd.nl) Received: from positron.soleus.nu (positron.soleus.nu [IPv6:2a02:898:62:f6::63]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F367DA04 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from u020807.science.uva.nl (u020807.science.uva.nl [146.50.52.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by positron.soleus.nu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7F33FF8024; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:16:22 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: Upgrading XENHVM 9.0 to 9.1 From: Jeroen van der Ham In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:16:21 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Mark Felder X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:16:33 -0000 Hi, On 24 Jan 2013, at 14:41, Mark Felder wrote: >> - I manually downloaded and extracted the 9.1 GENERIC kernel. Booting = from that results in a rootmount mismatch (ada0 vs ad0). Just renaming = it in /etc/fstab does not seem to be enough, what else would I need to = do? >=20 > Yes, the GENERIC kernel uses adaX and the XENHVM kernel uses adX. It = shouldn't be a problem to just change it in the fstab though. I've not = yet had problems running 9.1 with XENHVM yet. I tried this both using the mountroot prompt when booting with an old = fstab and a corrected fstab. In both cases the kernel is not able to = mount the UFS volume. >> - I manually built a new 9.1 XENHVM kernel. Booting from that results = in the message: "pudna: fpcurthread =3D=3D curthread xx times" scrolling = by. What can I do to fix that? >>=20 >=20 > I've not seen this message yet either.=20 I've seen this message also previously when I was toying around with my = 9.0 system. I forget what exactly I did though. There are some references to it in earlier cases, dating back to 2005: http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-amd64&m=3D112231842214570 Another in 2010: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D17979 (I did not try those options yet though) > Can you provide more details of the Xen environment you're hosted on? AMD Opteron system, with kernel 2.6.32 on Dom0, using 4.0.1-2. My VPS is run using Xen qemu. >> Is there a problem in continuing to run the 9.0 XENHVM kernel with = the 9.1 system? >>=20 >=20 > This would not be advised. It *may* work, but be warned that you may = run into strange issues. I noticed that freebsd-update started complaining during its cron-job. = I've since performed a freebsd-update rollback. Jeroen.