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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2013 10:22:03 -0700
From:      Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
To:        Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>, "xen-users@lists.xen.org" <xen-users@lists.xen.org>, "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject:   Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks Matt and Colin for the testing and help! I've pushed yet another
> version, now it's branch pvhvm_v12, which I *think* should solve the
> issues with cpuid != acpi_id:
> 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/royger/freebsd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pvhvm_v12
> 
> Since I'm not able to reproduce the cpuid != acpi_id case, could you
> give it a try and report the results?

Colin, can you build an AMI with this new kernel?
 
[...]

> On 28/05/13 23:33, Colin Percival wrote:
> > On a cc2.8xlarge EC2 instance, the lines which come after this are
> >> GEOM: new disk xbd1
> >> GEOM: new disk xbd2
> >> GEOM: new disk xbd3
> >> GEOM: new disk xbd4
> >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a [rw]...
> >> start_init: trying /sbin/init
> > and then the userland boot process; have you made any bug fixes after
> > your pvhvm_v7 which would explain why tasting disks was hanging?
> 
> I'm not sure I follow, did you found a regression from previous
> branches? i.e. it used to work with branch pvhvm_v6 and not pvhvm_v7?

Colin was saying that his local change only moved the boot process a
bit farther for cr1.8xlarge. Perhaps some of the other changes you
made in the latest pvhvm_v12 branch will get the VM all the way up.

--msw



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