From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 17:00:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31CB1065686; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (www.tegenbosch28.nl [217.21.251.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62088FC13; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B461173C9; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:40:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6SGKaNbgWG9h; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:40:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.61.27.67] (opteron [212.61.27.67]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580FE17170; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:40:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48EE340B.9010507@IMAP> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:40:43 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kip Macy References: <3c1674c90808221503v5ee48f05td71f70f152e71ef8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90808221503v5ee48f05td71f70f152e71ef8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:02:34 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0000 Kip Macy wrote: > Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the > wiki for general information: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen > > Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is > production-ready. There are many known limitations. If you would like > to take it for a test drive and report bugs please give it a spin. Well it took me some figuring out, before I found this message. Getting it to run with a current-kernel is a lot simpeler. So what I've done is: take your mdroot-disk and your config build the current XEN kernel So I'm running a current-kernel with 7.0 world, I guess. That boots just fine after I changed the disk to xbd1a... So as a nice stresstest I thought: lets mount /usr/src8/src and try to build world. :) Well that is killed in the first serious work with sig 11. Which I at first expected to be due the small memsize. But even upping this on to 256Mb, the compiler still crashes. Also the system suffers from rather seriously long freezes. It can sit there for like > 30 secs. But then on the other hand: It is getting real close to being usefull. --WjW Underlying stuff: dual opteron 245 with 2gb RAM running Ubuntu Hardy en Xen 3.2 PAE --WjW