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2013-Feb-22 09:04 UTC
[Possible Regression] FreeBSD 9.1 i386 in PV mode can not boot on Xen 4.2.1
Hello all, I tried to setup a FreeBSD i386 guest in PV mode. So I compiled a FreeBSD Xen Kernel with the XEN kernel configuration from 9.1 revision 247145. The detailed information from "svn info" looks like this: Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/9.1.0 Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f Revision: 247145 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: kensmith Last Changed Rev: 243808 Last Changed Date: 2012-12-03 06:03:33 +0100 (Mon, 03 Dec 2012) When I try to start the domain the kernel runs into a panic. The output is this: Parsing config from /root/xen/freebsd-test.cfg libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1212:device_model_spawn_outcome: domain 19 device model: spawn failed (rc=-3) libxl: error: libxl_qmp.c:641:libxl__qmp_initialize: Connection error: No such file or directory Daemon running with PID 4181 WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb APIC: Using the MPTable enumerator. SMP: Added CPU 0 (BSP) Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r247145M: Fri Feb 22 09:19:40 CET 2013 root at build:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XEN i386 WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Xen reported: 3341.754 MHz processor. Timecounter "ixen" frequency 1953125 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 975 @ 3.33GHz (3341.75-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106a5 Family = 6 Model = 1a Stepping 5 Features=0xbfe3fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x98e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT> AMD Features=0x28100000<NX,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> Data TLB: 4 KB pages, 4-way set associative, 64 entries 1st-level data cache: 32 KB, 8-way set associative, 64 byte line size L2 cache: 256 kbytes, 8-way associative, 64 bytes/line real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) Physical memory chunk(s): 0x000000000082c000 - 0x000000001f628fff, 517984256 bytes (126461 pages) avail memory = 514850816 (491 MB) INTR: Adding local APIC 0 as a target ULE: setup cpu 0 [XEN] IPI cpu=0 irq=128 vector=RESCHEDULE_VECTOR (0) [XEN] IPI cpu=0 irq=129 vector=CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR (1) Event-channel device installed. io: <I/O> random: <entropy source, Software, Yarrow> mem: <memory> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled null: <null device, zero device> nfslock: pseudo-device [XEN] xen_rtc_probe: probing Hypervisor RTC clock rtc0: <Xen Hypervisor Clock> on motherboard [XEN] xen_rtc_attach: attaching Hypervisor RTC clock rtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock (resolution 1000000us, adjustment 0.500000000s) xenstore0: <XenStore> on motherboard Grant table initialized xc0: <Xen Console> on motherboard Device configuration finished. procfs registered Event timer "ixen" quality 600 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec lo0: bpf attached xenbusb_front0: <Xen Frontend Devices> on xenstore0 xenbusb_add_device: Device device/suspend/event-channel ignored. State 6 xenbusb_back0: <Xen Backend Devices> on xenstore0 xctrl0: <Xen Control Device> on xenstore0 [XEN] hypervisor wallclock nudged; nudging TOD. run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xenbus_free_evtchn run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xenbus_free_evtchn run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xenbus_free_evtchn run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xenbus_free_evtchn [XEN] hypervisor wallclock nudged; nudging TOD. run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xenbus_free_evtchn panic: run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks: waited too long cpuid = 0 KDB: enter: panic [ thread pid 0 tid 100000 ] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3a: movl $0,kdb_why db> The xen configuration file looks like this: kernel = '/home/kernel1' extra = 'boot_verbose=1,kern.hz=100' vcpus = '1' memory = '512' disk = [ 'file:/home/test/disk.img,xvda1,w', ] name = 'freebsd' vif = [ '' ] on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' I can not say where the problem is located. The configuration I used is located in the source tree at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/XEN I search a while on the web and found that it helped in 8.x to comment out different things. Primary this threads are said such things on the forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10268 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=33435 So it would be great when someone could help me to figure out the boot panic. A second thing is that I use a ZFS formated image. Is it possible to run / on ZFS with a Xen kernel? ZFS is in a module when I am right and I thing I have to boot the guest with PV GRUB to get this working am I right? Best Regards