I''ve been trying, without much luck, to run FreeBSD in a
xen-unstable guest HVM. I have, however, had success in getting Windows
XP and even Debian to install and run with a similar configuration.
I''ve even gone so far as to boot the physical machine from the FreeBSD
installation CD, install it to a real drive, boot back into the Xen0 and
then attempt to export that FreeBSD physical block device to the HVM
with the same results: An ever-repeating display of register
information followed by a "BTX Halted" message:
int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00010046 eip=000090db
eax=00050033 ebx=00002820 ecx=00000000 edx=0000a000
esi=00009701 edi=00051f98 ebp=00007bea esp=00001800
cs=0008 ds=0000 es=0000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 01 15 d0 96 00 00 66-ea e8 90 18 00 b1 20 8e
d1 8e d9 8e c1 8e e1 8e-e9 48 0f 22 c0 ea fd 90
ss:esp=0a 69 6e 74 3d 30 30 30-30 30 30 30 64 20 20 65
72 72 3d 30 30 30 30 30-30 30 30 20 20 65 66 6c
BTX halted
The hardware is a Supermicro server motherboard with two dual core
Xeon 5140''s (2.33GHz).
I''ve found a bug report that was submitted back in mid April (
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622 ) which
describes the same problem. It was updated in mid August by someone
else who was having the same problem, and it''s still an open
"NEW" bug.
I have a specific need to run FreeBSD, but I don''t want to have
to
dedicate an entire server to it. It would be ideal to run it as a
virtual machine but it seems like there''s just no way to do it without
going back a few versions where paravirtualized FreeBSD was working.
That brings me to these two questions:
1. Has anyone actually been able to make a recent version of FreeBSD
run as a domU in any capacity on Xen 3.0.2 or unstable?
2. Has there been any progress toward making the Xen 3.x
paravirtualized x86_64 FreeBSD?
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> I have a specific need to run FreeBSD, but I don''t want to have to > dedicate an entire server to it. It would be ideal to run it as a > virtual machine but it seems like there''s just no way to do it without > going back a few versions where paravirtualized FreeBSD was working. > That brings me to these two questions: > > 1. Has anyone actually been able to make a recent version of FreeBSD > run as a domU in any capacity on Xen 3.0.2 or unstable?I''m very much interested in the same. If you''ve made any progress on this front, I''d love to hear about it! I''m going to try Kip Macy''s FreeBSD 7 binaries from fsmware.com today (not HVM, regular paravirtualized) -- I''ll post a follow up here. TIA, Diwaker -- Web/Blog/Gallery: http://floatingsun.net/blog _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Friday 06 October 2006 02:52, Diwaker Gupta wrote:> > I have a specific need to run FreeBSD, but I don''t want to have to > > dedicate an entire server to it. It would be ideal to run it as a > > virtual machine but it seems like there''s just no way to do it without > > going back a few versions where paravirtualized FreeBSD was working. > > That brings me to these two questions: > > > > 1. Has anyone actually been able to make a recent version of FreeBSD > > run as a domU in any capacity on Xen 3.0.2 or unstable? > > I''m very much interested in the same. If you''ve made any progress on > this front, I''d love to hear about it! I''m going to try Kip Macy''s > FreeBSD 7 binaries from fsmware.com today (not HVM, regular > paravirtualized) -- I''ll post a follow up here. >Hi, please take a look at this page: http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.html HTH :-) -- Best Regards Yuan, Jue @ http://www.yuanjue.net _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Yuan, Jue wrote:> please take a look at this page: http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.html > > HTH :-)I forgot to explicitly mention that I''m running an x86_64 dom0. At the very top of that page, it says, "We only support FreeBSD/i386 for now." From what I recall, the last time I tried this, all domU kernels need to be x86_64 if the dom0 kernel is x86_64. Has this changed? -- Scott Garron _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, On 10/10/06, Yuan, Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com> wrote:> [...] > please take a look at this page: http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.htmlyuan, but this seems to be a howto for paravirtualized mode of a patched freebsd for domU. But the thread you replied to seems to be about hvm mode, and I have pretty much the same experience with freebsd in hvm mode, which I already posted to another thread a good while ago. Do you have any hints for freebsd in hvm mode? Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Henning, On 10/16/06, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@gmx.de> wrote:> Hi, > > > On 10/10/06, Yuan, Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > please take a look at this page: http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.html > > > yuan, but this seems to be a howto for paravirtualized mode of a > patched freebsd for domU. > > But the thread you replied to seems to be about hvm mode, and I have > pretty much the same experience with freebsd in hvm mode, which I > already posted to another thread a good while ago. > > Do you have any hints for freebsd in hvm mode? >I share the same experience with FreeBSD in HVM mode too :-( don''t know if it will get better when Xen 3.0.3 is released. -- Best Regards Yuan, Jue @ http://www.yuanjue.net _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users