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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2019 15:09:51 +0100
From:      Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To:        Eric Bautsch <eric.bautsch@pobox.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Issue getting my first Xen domU up
Message-ID:  <20190205140951.5ymuixuk64xal6lb@mac>
In-Reply-To: <1a013128-9efd-9f9c-878c-32c3598734f3@pobox.com>
References:  <1a013128-9efd-9f9c-878c-32c3598734f3@pobox.com>

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:17:55AM +0000, Eric Bautsch wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get a Xen domU up and running.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 12.0. System is a new install.
> 
> 
> I'm following the instructions here:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-xen.html
> 
> 
> My config file looks thus:
> 
> builder = "hvm"
> name = "titania"
> memory = 8192
> vcpus = 2
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:11:11:21,bridge=bridge0' ]
> disk = [ '/dev/zvol/zroot/titania0,raw,hda,rw' ]
> vnc = 1
> vnclisten = "0.0.0.0"
> serial = "pty"

That seems like a valid configuration.

> Upon trying to create the domU, I think it's trying to tell me that it's got
> issues with the storage, but that may be a red herring as the qemu command
> seems to include the storage. Nevertheless, I have also tried with sda and
> messed around with qcow2 (that one didn't work, but probably due to my wrong
> incantation). Anyway here's the output from the above config file.

It's indeed QEMU failing the start the problem here. Do you have the
if_tap module loaded (`kldload if_tap`)?

Can you provide the QEMU log, it should be in
/var/log/xen/qemu-dm-titania.log.

Thanks, Roger.



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