From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 19:20:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A35F1065674 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:20:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout2-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com (mrout2-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.107.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4843E8FC17 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cheese.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.50.99]) by mrout2-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/y.out) with ESMTP id p6QJ9n6M082070; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:09:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=yahoo-inc.com; s=cobra; t=1311707390; bh=3n5GosTl1R87gkyBu3GXI5YKtQAQHRkgvpvhAQqWvGs=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date: Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IgvoU1DkAIWLyWM2hccMYvLffCGJgz+QXucFAXdZV89ZkHSGZEcHmFBHpKgG5l+e3 iebGck9rRWCvIsdh1XWyBrGwIFOYoCqqum0DqaJEJXKOitKh+eZzgwLpXXu5lkxS5s s2vY8txtJRLzc/ZeVDaRD03JSZGoOVxI/wD5ir1Y= From: Sean Bruno To: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <4E2F0E65.70603@freebsd.org> References: <1311705329.3927.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4E2F0E65.70603@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:09:49 -0700 Message-ID: <1311707389.3927.11.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 (2.32.2-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD PV i386 panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:20:32 -0000 On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:58 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > On 07/26/11 11:35, Sean Bruno wrote: > > I assume then, that the i386 PV instance cannot do more than 1 CPU at > > this time? > > Correct. SMP support was clearly started but never completed. > > > I note that if I scale the i386 PV Xen kernel past 855MB, I get an insta > > panic at boot. I assume that there's a hard limit on the amount of RAMS > > we can use here? > > There's a problem somewhere in FreeBSD's PV machine init code, but I haven't had > an opportunity to track it down yet. I hope to look at this some time soon (if > I can access the xen box in the cluster?) but I've been swamped lately. > Yup, you're on my list to get access today. I'll get kerberos up and running on the hypervisor so you can screw around in a bit. Sean