From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 23:38:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30F816A420 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 23:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kps@ucsb.edu) Received: from smtp.ucsb.edu (smtp.ucsb.edu [128.111.24.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD8013C4AA for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 23:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kps@ucsb.edu) Received: from splat.oit.ucsb.edu ([128.111.12.20]) by smtp.ucsb.edu with esmtpsa TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 id 1IoS23-000MeH-FM; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:03:59 -0700 From: Kevin Schmidt Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara To: Freddie Cash Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:03:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <48344.172.16.9.1.1192472836.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <200710281319.33309.kps@ucsb.edu> <200710291012.38130.fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200710291012.38130.fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711031603.52584.kps@ucsb.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kps@ucsb.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:38:30 -0000 On Monday 29 October 2007, Freddie Cash wrote: > On October 28, 2007 01:19 pm Kevin Schmidt wrote: ... > > FWIW, I've tried FreeBSD as an HVM guest on several Linux distros > > as Dom0, Xen 3.0 (3.0.3, 3.0.4) and 3.1 (3.1.0), using Xen packages > > and manual compiles. Linux distros included Ubuntu 7.04 and Debian > > 4. FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 -- release and snapshots -- consistently > > fail to boot with a looping "BTX halted" and register dump. If > > there's a way to install stock FreeBSD under Xen HVM, I haven't > > seen it. Without saying whether this is properly a Xen problem or > > FBSD BTX problem, my guess is this type of installation will not > > work until there are BTX changes. > > Crap, that's not what I want to hear. :( > > Any chance you would be willing/able to test using XenEnterprise 4 as > the Dom0 (there's a free version available at: > http://www.citrixxenserver.com/products/Pages/XenExpress.aspx). I don't have appropriate hardware available at the moment. The previous test boxes (Supermicro X7DBE+ motherboards w/Intel procs) are now in use for other purposes, including running Ubuntu 7.10 Xen Dom0 with CentOS5 DomU HVM. -- Kevin Schmidt Office of Information Technology University of California, Santa Barbara North Hall 2124 Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3201 805-893-7779 805-893-5051 FAX kps@ucsb.edu