From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 13:14:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC88106566C for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:105e::1e6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917F48FC14 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:105e::1e6]) by koef.zs64.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0KDE1AL050406; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:14:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by koef.zs64.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0KDE1q7050404; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:14:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:14:01 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer To: Janne Snabb Message-ID: <20110120131401.GA49672@cons.org> References: <20110119204707.GA50536@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-amd64 in Xen 4.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:46 -0000 Janne Snabb wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:07:57AM +0000: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Janne Snabb wrote: > > > I am not sure if this is the cause of your problem though, but your > > configuration might create an environment which is not suitable for > > the HVM kernel to run. > > Martin, > > I tried this out with Xen 4.0.1 and had the same effect as you: > "Xend died due to signal 11!" if I attempted loading the XENHVM > kernel with kernel = "/within/dom0/path/to/freebsd/kernel" in xen > config. > > With kernel = "/path/to/hvmloader" things work fine (the FreeBSD > kernel and boot loader residing within the virtual disk of the > virtual machine, the same way as it would be on a physical machine). > This is the proper way to use the amd64 XENHVM kernel. Thanks for the update. Just to be clear: the disk file has to be a whole disk, with partitions, right? hvmloader would then proceed through the regular bootloaders in the boot sector? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/