Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:25:44 +0000 From: Anthony Francis <Anthony.Francis@eu.citrix.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=F3t_Andr=E1s?= <got.andras@deployis.eu> Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Running FreeBSD as a guest under xen Message-ID: <2BAFFF2BACC5E545B3264F3CBD52919054382153A5@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> In-Reply-To: <4B91123B.10409@deployis.eu> References: <2BAFFF2BACC5E545B3264F3CBD52919054382153A0@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net> <4B91123B.10409@deployis.eu>
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Hi Andras, Thank you for the prompt response. I have managed to install both 32b and 64b VMs in HVM mode but I am lacking= to the knowledge and understand to compile the XEN and XENHVM kernels. Is= this something you can tell me how to do? Are both XEN and XENHVM paravirtualised kernels or are there other options = for FreeBSD 8.0? If I got answers to these questions I will try this very soon. Best regards, Anthony -----Original Message----- From: G=F3t Andr=E1s [mailto:got.andras@deployis.eu]=20 Sent: 05 March 2010 14:16 To: Anthony Francis Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD as a guest under xen Hi Anthony, We figured out the following method for doing automated FreeBSD installs: - Make a HVM installation of a FreeBSD 8, download source and compile=20 XEN or XENHVM kernels (XEN on i386 and XENHVM on amd64 in the kernel=20 config directory). Install, reboot and that's it, the next steps are for=20 automating and other features. I didn't do any benchmarks but both way=20 was very usable the OS. - Make another BSD install (appr. a 300-500MB partition) and copy the=20 compiled BSD kernel, which boots off but the kernel will use an other=20 partition for the rootfs. - The "boot install" is an oldschool bsd slice with labels, as I=20 couldn't yet figure out booting it somehow else. (Suggestions are=20 welcome, of course.) - The real root file system could be easily set up with and installworld=20 just from compiled system above. This extra setup is a must have for us=20 as this way I was able to do lvm snapshots of UFS. On the i386 I finished testing off quite soon as SMP is simple does not=20 work and there were maybe some other issues. The amd64 is promising with=20 a 2 way SMP working well but a reliable 4 would be nicer of course. Keep in mind, that with i386 you'll also get xenconsole, but it didn't=20 worked with amd64 sot the VNC console was used. I'll continue testing later this month (I hope...). Best regards, Andras Anthony Francis wrote: > Hi Andras, >=20 > For those of us that are new to FreeBSD, can you please point or provide = us with some basic instructions for enabling the PV support on 32-bit and 6= 4-bit 8-Release? >=20 > Best regards, >=20 > Anthony > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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