Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:11:23 +0300 From: Pekka.Panula@sofor.fi To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 10.0-Beta1 OVA appliance for XenServer 6.2 Message-ID: <OF1FA033E4.7B4BC6AD-ONC2257C07.002BAECD-C2257C07.002D020B@sofor.fi>
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Hi As you all know, you cant install FreeBSD 10.0-Beta1 from ISO CD under XenServer 6.2, because cd-rom problem it has. Hope its somehow fixed in future. Anyway, i managed to install it thru PXE-TFTP method. PXE install method has some little bugs, like its trying to re-mount root as read-write (cant do that) so you need to modify /etc/fstab and remove line from there. Also not sure about why name servers did not work as my DHCP is giving out correct DNS servers, so it was also needed to modify /etc/resolv.conf and put out nameservers there, then you can install it correctly. My boot source was FreeBSD-10.0-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso, i unpacked it to TFTP server and used that as root. Could give my DHCP config if anyone is also interested to bootstrap from PXE-TFTP method. Here is a download URL for OVA file i made for FreeBSD 10.0-Beta1, AMD64: http://download.sofor.fi/FreeBSD10.0-BETA1.ova.gz, size about 373MB packed. its installed as ZFS on root. root pw: password, it also has pkgng working pointed to http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/freebsd%3A10%3Ax86%3A64/ so i managed to install Xen Tools easy way. One notice regarding Xen Tools, when you do shutdown option from XenCenter its not actually seems to be shutdowning, it says its halted and it waiting key press to reboot. I am hoping that is modified in future and shutdown actually shutdowns it as now it leaves its running state under XenServer. Not sure if there is a bug report open for that. Regards, Pekka Panula From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 17 15:20:19 2013 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E837057F for <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:20:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC84E299C for <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:20:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id B846420F49; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:20:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:20:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:cc:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=D6YOUsSLBE5R0kjiugMS0i16bLk=; b=ZtpU+ 5SLb6USCLVJQKsfDTr5UlyMZp+0p/2I0LEj4D3VA8Wpg6IaQPghy6hrJ8ND1rARr Hgn46HyI/WuZpDxVV64w8J/zbbsicYzPJclLUAHY7K4hILANhdieAOQjTkr2c4hZ PZh1vub76m6F19L7i3ffIX6snUVUY3S9xJ7siU= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8EA225818FD; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:20:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1382023212.5295.35193809.65F0A86A@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: 6dv1MM+WJMK5SI1O0t7RqLXiyX8aqYKLkYhCUt7cQbLu 1382023212 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-ce174988 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.0-Beta1 OVA appliance for XenServer 6.2 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:20:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <OF1FA033E4.7B4BC6AD-ONC2257C07.002BAECD-C2257C07.002D020B@sofor.fi> References: <OF1FA033E4.7B4BC6AD-ONC2257C07.002BAECD-C2257C07.002D020B@sofor.fi> 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 <freebsd-xen.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-xen>, <mailto:freebsd-xen-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-xen-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen>, <mailto:freebsd-xen-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:20:20 -0000 On Thu, Oct 17, 2013, at 3:11, Pekka.Panula@sofor.fi wrote: > Hi > > As you all know, you cant install FreeBSD 10.0-Beta1 from ISO CD under > XenServer 6.2, because cd-rom problem it has. Hope its somehow fixed in > future. > Hi Pekka! This has been fixed in 10-STABLE and will be part of the next BETA release :-) There is also a patch for FreeBSD 9 that they will hopefully backport. Note, this patch is slightly different than the one required for 10-STABLE. Big thanks to gibbs and Roger for their work on Xen. https://feld.me/freebsd/freebsd9-xen-cdrom-fix.patch > One notice regarding Xen Tools, when you do shutdown option from > XenCenter > its not actually seems to be shutdowning, it says its halted and it > waiting key press to reboot. > I am hoping that is modified in future and shutdown actually shutdowns it > as now it leaves its running state under XenServer. Not sure if there is > a > bug report open for that. > I do have a bug report for that -- kern/171118. I had a conversation with someone not too long ago that I'm looking for in my email. It was suggested that XenServer sends the wrong command.
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