From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Fri May 6 16:53:02 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D087EB2F6CF for ; Fri, 6 May 2016 16:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=927f2c6f3=roger.pau@citrix.com) Received: from SMTP.CITRIX.COM (smtp.citrix.com [66.165.176.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.citrix.com", Issuer "Verizon Public SureServer CA G14-SHA2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7428B13A1 for ; Fri, 6 May 2016 16:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=927f2c6f3=roger.pau@citrix.com) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,587,1454976000"; d="scan'208";a="352133121" Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 18:52:53 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= To: Marcin Cieslak CC: Subject: Re: Booting Solaris 11.3 (was Re: Booting r298488 as Xen Dom0 may break ZFS pool?) Message-ID: <20160506165253.o4sphxjp7ngmwu4w@mac> References: <20160426093556.oxeh5qyafe3ro6xy@mac> <20160426112925.hmijqrxt52kyswfg@mac> <20160429075716.5mykxirogrlvc5pq@mac> <20160505154136.ry2jq7xfavej4esg@mac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0-neo (2016-04-07) X-DLP: MIA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 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: Fri, 06 May 2016 16:53:02 -0000 On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 10:20:51PM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 08:56:54PM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > > > Certainly. I assumed that you meant it crashed the VM, not the whole host. > > > > Can you please provide the trace of the crash? > > > > > > Apologies, forgot to let Xen keep VGA: > > > > > > http://marcincieslak.com/tmp/xencrash.png > > > > > > Manual OCR: > > > > > > FreeBSD/amd64 (o.saper.info) (xc0) > > > > > > login: (XEN) vmx.c:2464:d0v0 EPT violation 0x182 (-w-/---), gpa 0x0000010178f000 > > > > Hello, > > > > I've been able to debug this and found the issue. I have two patches that > > should be applied to FreeBSD in order to fix it, they can be found at: > > > > https://people.freebsd.org/~royger/privcmd_fixes/ > > > > Could you please give them a try? > > > I have however been unable to boot a Solaris 11.3 guest under PV mode, but > > at least the host is not crashing anymore :). > > Thanks, I can confirm that the patches fix the crash for me. > The half-life of PV Solaris is still under the microsecond. > > Btw. I have managed to get gdbsx going by replacing "/proc/xen/privcmd" > with "/dev/xen/privcmd". > > Indeed, the state of Solaris is pretty bad: > > - Solaris 11.3 under HVM boots, but the installer complains there > are no local disks (which is not true, even device nodes are there > under /dev/dsk/ ... ) That's quite weird, under HVM disks are available using both the emulated and the PV interfaces, and Solaris 11.3 should certainly support the emulated ones. IIRC they are AHCI. > - OpenIndiana (OI-hipster-text-20160421.iso as HVM) hangs after printing > out the kernel version message > > - SmartOS (smartos-20160428T170316Z.iso) > seems to work at first, but after the initial configuration > it cannot bring the network interface up because its link > state is unknown (tried model=e1000 and the default Realtek): > > [root@master0 ~]# dladm show-phys > LINK MEDIA STATE SPEED DUPLEX DEVICE > e1000g0 Ethernet unknown 0 half e1000g0 Hm, AFAICT this doesn't look related to FreeBSD, but just to be sure, could you try the same with a Linux Dom0? Roger.