From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Aug 11 22:59:44 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95399419
 for <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:59:44 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu)
Received: from mail.egr.msu.edu (hill.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.162])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8CE2BA2
 for <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:59:43 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from hill (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by mail.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC30422C9
 for <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at egr.msu.edu
Received: from mail.egr.msu.edu ([127.0.0.1])
 by hill (hill.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
 with ESMTP id o7EQdx8Sfnhs for <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>;
 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from EGR authenticated sender
Message-ID: <52081753.6060202@egr.msu.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:59:31 -0400
From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
 rv:17.0) Gecko/20130806 Thunderbird/17.0.7
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: XENHVM and XenServer 6.2
References: <CANrxokG9BtJR1jAu_+8wX8x2KvtMHtxiq_OOE_gLQ+Y0tH0pzQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <20130810150138.GA95787@home.renatasystems.org>
 <E86159AFF88585210E1392C0@study64.tdx.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <E86159AFF88585210E1392C0@study64.tdx.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage
 <freebsd-xen.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-xen>,
 <mailto:freebsd-xen-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-xen-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen>,
 <mailto:freebsd-xen-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:59:44 -0000

On 08/11/13 05:30, Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
> --On 10 August 2013 19:01:38 +0400 Alexey Degtyarev 
> <alexey@renatasystems.org> wrote:
>
>> Try to remove DVD device from problem virtual machine:
>>
>> # xe vm-list params=uuid name-label=<your-vm-name>
>>
>> # xe vbd-list empty=true params=uuid vm-uuid=<your-vm-UUID>
>>
>> # xe vbd-destroy uuid=<vbd-UUID>
>
> Presumably / obviously removing the DVD will stop you booting a .ISO 
> image? - I just built a 9.1-Beta2 release .ISO image w/XENHVM kernel - 
> and ran into the same issue booting that .ISO :(
>
> Can you boot a GENERIC .ISO, use that to do the install, then switch 
> to XENHVM kernel (i.e. once installed and you don't need to boot off 
> of ISO)? [first time with XEN]
>
>
> -Karl
For now, yes, but there was talk of enabling XENHVM in GENERIC which would
make this really hard without a boot loader switch to turn XENHVM off.