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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:19:24 +0200
From:      Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <royger@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <royger@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans
Message-ID:  <20180730101924.aatt5ug33kg6dfil@mac.bytemobile.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180719090444.jojyziar2c6wy735@mac>
References:  <20180719090444.jojyziar2c6wy735@mac>

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:04:44AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
[...]
> After introducing PVHv2 PVHv1 was deprecated and PVHv1 has been
> removed from the hypervisor in recent versions, that's why the Xen
> ports package is still stuck with Xen 4.7, because later versions
> removed PVHv1 support. With the addition of PVHv2 to FreeBSD the port
> can be updated to newer Xen versions and we can move forward.

Packages for Xen 4.11 are now available in pkg.

Remember that in order to use those you need a very recent FreeBSD
kernel (r336475 or newer) and the Xen command line has slightly changed,
so dom0=pvh must be used instead of dom0pvh in order to boot. I will
see about changing this in the handbook.

Roger.



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