Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:38:39 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>, xen@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen? Message-ID: <DA1AF0173D2A62540BEEF420@[10.12.30.106]> In-Reply-To: <55BB8392.4050000@citrix.com> References: <D313A9262AEA2AC29FCC4A1C@[10.12.30.106]> <55BB8392.4050000@citrix.com>
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--On 31 July 2015 16:17 +0200 Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <roger.pau@citrix.com> = wrote: > This is a bug then. You should be able to boot without XENHVM/xenpci, > and get a pure HVM guest with no PV devices at all. I'm just setting up another less critical system to reproduce it. To=20 confirm, I just take GENERIC and remove 'XENHVM' and 'xenpci', and it=20 should boot without PV. I'll post the results / panic & exact versions when I get it (though some=20 goes off the top of the console =3D could be interesting). > Since this seems to be getting quite popular (booting without PV > devices), I think adding a sysctl to disable PV nics and PV hard drives > would be interesting. We could still use some of the PV goodies, like > the timer. Can you technically have a system that has HVM network (i.e. realtek) but=20 still has disk PV, and/or is agile? (i.e. can run xen-tools)? That'd kind of be a 'perfect' workaround for all our network woes (openvpn, = routing etc.) at the moment - even if the performance of HVM re0 isn't as=20 good as a PV xn0 Cheers, -Karl
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