Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 12:48:19 +0100 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> 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: <20190207114819.uvidsagdiqpwfna2@mac> In-Reply-To: <201902061739.x16Hdls7046743@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <20190206171713.asav4wlhkce2m5wq@mac> <201902061739.x16Hdls7046743@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 09:39:47AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > 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. There doesn't seem to be a virtualization troubleshooting section I'm afraid. I've added something similar to my suggestion above as a tip, which will make it more visible. Thanks, Roger.
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