Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 09:39:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: "Roger Pau Monn?" <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@freebsd.org>, freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extend documentation (was: Re: Issue getting my first Xen domU up) Message-ID: <201902061739.x16Hdls7046743@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20190206171713.asav4wlhkce2m5wq@mac>
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> Adding Benedict who wrote the Xen handbook documentation, and > hopefully would be able to fix it :). > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 08:18:05PM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Eric Bautsch wrote: > > > > > And yes, the qemu-dm-titania.log would have been the place to look. I feel > > > pretty stupid. It says: > > > > Don't feel stupid. I am using Xen with Dom0 on FreeBSD for months now > > and I didn't know where the qemu logs go - I was able to figure out > > the problem by staring at the configuration file for a long time. > > > > Therefore your question was very helpful also for me - thanks! > > It seems there's one piece missing in the handbook which I didn't > realize, the if_tap module needs to be loaded for QEMU to work. > > I suggest the following is added to the handbook: > > ``` > sysrc -f /boot/loader.conf if_tap_load="YES" > ``` > > And then I've also realized the following line: > > ``` > sysrc -f /boot/loader.conf hw.pci.mcfg=0 > ``` > > Is only needed for Xen 4.7, but not for Xen 4.11. > > Finally it might be interesting to add a reference to the location of > the Xen logs. This should likely be added at the end of the document, > I think something along the lines of: > > ``` > Xen toolstack related logs can be found at /var/log/xen/ be sure to > check the contents of that directory if experiencing issues. > ``` Is there a troubleshooting section in the handbook? If not there should be, and this would defanitly be mentioned in that section. > > Sorry to bother you Benedict, but do you think you could make the > following changes? > > Thanks, Roger. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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