From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 08:48:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03B816A40F for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:48:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi) Received: from espresso2.syncrontech.com (sync-old.syncrontech.com [213.28.98.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A22443D53 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:48:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi) Received: from guinness.syncrontech.com (guinness.syncrontech.com [62.71.8.57]) by espresso2.syncrontech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k8Q8mvhC070875; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:48:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (coffee.syncrontech.com [192.168.5.102]) by guinness.syncrontech.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8Q8muK5004382; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:48:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ari@suutari.iki.fi) Message-ID: <4518E973.6010004@suutari.iki.fi> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:48:51 +0300 From: Ari Suutari User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Yuan, Jue" References: <4518D321.8050604@delphij.net> <51584f840609260101m7dc0a1e1iffaccc8621df3783@mail.gmail.com> <4518E0D1.2030903@suutari.iki.fi> <51584f840609260134v1c2dbcd4y23ab0830a198c43d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51584f840609260134v1c2dbcd4y23ab0830a198c43d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kip Macy , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Will Xen 3.0 support (at least domU) be available ?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:49:00 -0000 Hi, Yuan, Jue wrote: > > I tested freebsd-XENU_INSTALL under kubuntu 6.0.6 as dom0. don't know > why this happens. I will check this issue later :-) OK, I can consider running debian as dom0 if that is needed (but I would like to stick in the bsd family :-) > >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd769a >> Mount point / had 1 dangling refs >> >> >> The root filesystem is file based and has been created on another >> FreeBSD machine, so it should be ok. What is that number "769" in >> xbd device ? Is it same for all installations ? >> > > the magic number here is due to the major and minor device number of > Linux. maybe this is not the case while you are using NetBSD. Anyway, > the first thing you should check is the fstab file in your file-backed > image. It is not looking at fstab yet, this is the mount specified by extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd.... in xen config file. I tried guessing the number, but had no luck :-( > More details could be found at > http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.html Yes, I have read this. Actually, after reading this I started experimenting with Xen + FreeBSD again. Nice work anyway, I'm sure things will eventually start working... Ari S.