From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 7 08:38:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FE046E for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roger.pau@citrix.com) Received: from SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM (smtp.eu.citrix.com [46.33.159.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB15A7D for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:38:19 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,800,1355097600"; d="scan'208";a="2268449" Received: from lonpmailmx01.citrite.net ([10.30.203.162]) by LONPIPO01.EU.CITRIX.COM with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-MD5; 07 Mar 2013 08:38:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.30] (10.30.249.242) by LONPMAILMX01.citrite.net (10.30.203.162) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.3.297.1; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:38:05 +0000 Message-ID: <513851F1.8080009@citrix.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:38:09 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130216 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay West Subject: Re: misc. questions References: <000901ce1aa7$90704320$b150c960$@ezwind.net> <000601ce1aed$97e06540$c7a12fc0$@ezwind.net> In-Reply-To: <000601ce1aed$97e06540$c7a12fc0$@ezwind.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:38:20 -0000 On 07/03/13 05:38, Jay West wrote: > Mark wrote... >> You're having success with Xenserver 6.1? That's good news. I wonder why > XCP 1.6 is unable to boot FreeBSD if there's an emulated DVDROM? :( > > Yes. Stock install 64bit 9.1-R as HVM, recompile kernel using supplied > XENHVM config file. Then there's a few things to tweak before rebooting, one > is fstab because of the different naming convention for disk devices or you > choke on reboot after install (you can still do it after by entering correct > device in boot string). The other is the cd drive, you have to remove the cd > device (see http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132411). There may be > another step I'm forgetting, but that's the basic gist. Oh, and fix rc.conf > to use the xen (xn0) network device. We are still having one really nagging > issue - timekeeping. The clocks are way off and fluctuate wildly. FreeBSD is > selecting the clock source (from several possibilities) that already has the > highest stability rating, so I haven't tried setting the sysctl to use a > different clock source. I see no way to fix this and it's pretty crippling > in my environment anyways. Anyone have a fix for that? I think there were several fixes for the RTC clock recently, so trying the Xen 4.2 branch might bring some improvements. Also, it is possible to use the PV clock from HVM (PVHVM) domains, which will probably bring better stability. I'm going to look into this when I have some spare cycles.