similar to: RE: A question on vmx loader in xen - how and when rombiosis loaded into memory

A "main" function is defined in Xen-3.1.0-source/tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c. In this main function, rombios, vgabios and vmxassist are copied to specified address, with following commands memcpy((void *)ROMBIOS_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, rombios, rombios_sz); ... memcpy((void *)ETHERBOOT_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, etherboot, sizeof(etherboot)); .... But after searching the whole

If anyone is still interested in this old thread, I have a rh7.3 image running under hvm. It''s a hack, but here''s what I did: Install rh7.3 in a vmware machine with vmware server. Booted off a live cd, ( I used a gentoo installer CD, but any live cd should work) Created a lvm volume on my Xen dom0 >From the liveCD, I use dd to copy the disk image to the lvm image (dd

Hi all, I''m using ThinkPad T60, with xen3.1.0, windows could be installed into a file based virtual disk. however, when I tried to use a physical disk, I got this err msg: HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $ ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (0 MBytes) ata0 slave: UnKnown device Booting from Hard Disk... Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not

Not yet, but I don''t see any reason for it to work any differently. I simply used vmware because it was convenient. -Adam | -----Original Message----- | From: Simon Gao [mailto:gao@schrodinger.com] | Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:22 AM | To: Adam Crews -X (acrews - Xerox at Cisco) | Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com; Mike Freemon | Subject: Re: [Xen-users]

All, We are facing some issues bringing up a DomVT on Xen x86_64(changeset 9267). We created a disk image with dd 8 G in size. We then booted an associated Dom-VT with a CD-ROM and did net-install of the sles-9 OS. This completes successfully. Then, when the system is brought around for a reboot (having changed the boot option from cdrom to disk), the system hangs after the line

Hi , since changeset 9996 i managed to install and boot a HVM Domain with Windows XP and Windows 2000. Now i tried Vista :-) it starts to boot from cd and the i get the following error in the log : (XEN) (GUEST: 8) HVM Loader (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading ROMBIOS ... (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ... (XEN) (GUEST: 8) Loading VMXAssist ... (XEN) (GUEST: 8) VMX go ... (XEN) (GUEST: 8)

Hi, Does anybody installed FreeBSD to VT Xen Domain with success? I tired FreeBSD 6.0 Stable installer cd but after the SDL console bing up and the loader was fund I got the following messages scrolling on the console: BTX halted init=0000000d err=00000000 elf=00010046 eip=000090db eax=00050033 ebx=00042820 ecx=00000000 edx=0000a000 esi=00209701 ebi=0001f98 ebp=000d0000 esp=00001800 cs=0008

Hi Jan Beulich, > changeset 15414: 3cf5052ba5e5 x86: machine check exception handling With the c/s, when creating HVM guest, I can only see a white Qemu window. :( Can you have a look? Thanks. PS: the serial log follows: (XEN) HVM1: pci dev 02:0 bar 14 size 00001000: f2000000 (XEN) HVM1: pci dev 03:0 bar 10 size 00000100: 0000c101 (XEN) HVM1: pci dev 03:0 bar 14 size 01000000:

I am trying to install Windows 2003 Server as a xen guest and I am having a problem. After the guest is booted from CD-ROM i partition disk OK, and while system is trying to copy files needed for the installation, it cannot read some files from CD-ROM (starting with wow32.dll etc.). I have tried also to copy installation disk onto local disk and load it from .iso file, but the same problem

I am trying to get QNX working with Xen. I''ve going about it in a similar way as installing windows with Xen, but when I start the guest up to install the OS it hangs on the line: ''Hit Esc for .altboot.......'' If anyone has managed to get this working, or has any ideas/advice for me here it would be greatly appreciated! Bryan

We (Michael Fetterman, George Dunlap and I) have been working over the last while on a full replacement for Xen''s shadow pagetable support. This mail contains some design notes, below; a patch against xen-unstable, giving a snapshot of the current state of the new shadow code, is at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tjd21/shadow2.patch Comments on both are welcome, although the code is not

Hello, I read in the announce of Xen 3.2.0 released that it has "preliminary support for a wider range of bootloaders in fully virtualised (HVM) guests, using full emulation of x86 ''real mode''" . I''d like to know what is the level of the emulation of x86 ''real mode''? I ask that because I tried to install OpenSuse 10.3 (I used the iso file

Like others on this list I am trying to employ the VTD-NEO patches in Xen 3.2 unstable to assign the internal graphics device to Dom1/Vista. I have removed the Cirrus Logic emulated device from qemu and replaced the Cirrus Logic vgabios with the the actual vgabios from my GPU. However I am hitting an xen assert and was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Below

Greetings xen gurus... I''m working with xen-3.0-testing downloaded on July 3, 2006. I have configured an hvm domain and want to use vif-route and network-route to configure the communication. The domU starts up fine. I was able to complete the installation of the OS (RHES3) and can restart the domain repeatedly. However, I cannot ping the network interface from dom0 using the

When booting HVMs with SeaBIOS, the BIOS itself takes care of extracting option ROMs from the PCI devices. These ROMs are usually provided with by the device model (qemu). Thus, hvmloader should not require any longer the rombios, stdvga, cirrusvga or etherboot ROMs to be present. Also, the 32bitbios_support.c file is specific to rombios and should not be built when building hvmloader with

This patch set mainly allows the user to build a seabios or rombios only version of hvmloader. In addition, when building a seabios only hvmloader, Option ROMs like vgabios and etherboot are no longer required, and therefore can be disabled from the build. Dependency on the bcc compiler can also be avoided the same way. v2: Separate patches for separate issues Introduced config option to

Hi, all I am new to xen, and just try to use the HVM feature of xen3.1. two issues i met: 1. fedora 7 guest can not boot grub is displaying the boot menu, but hang there. and from "xm top", seems the guest exhauses all the cpu. 2. sdl doesn''t work, i always need to use vnc client to connect to the console here are some info about my system. * cat /proc/cpuinfo * cat xm.hvm (my

DELL PE 830 (Intel Pentium D with VT enabled). xen-unstable latest Trying to boot from CDROM and getting following error: (XEN) (GUEST: 1) Start BIOS ... (XEN) (GUEST: 1) Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0 (XEN) (GUEST: 1) rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 vruppert Exp $ (XEN) (GUEST: 1) Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20 (XEN) (GUEST: 1) Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 ->

This patch set mainly allows the user to build a seabios or rombios only version of hvmloader. In addition, when building a seabios only hvmloader, Option ROMs like vgabios and etherboot are no longer required, and therefore can be disabled from the build. Dependency on the bcc compiler can also be avoided the same way. v2: Separate patches for separate issues Introduced config option to

The SeaBIOS ROM image may validly exceed 128k in size, it''s only our interface code that so far assumed that it wouldn''t. Remove that restriction by setting the base address depending on image size. Add a check to HVM loader so that too big images won''t result in silent guest failure anymore. Uncomment the intended build-time size check for rombios, moving it into a