Hi all. I''m just checking whether someone has had success in running OpenBSD 3.9 or 4.0/i386 on Xen 3 with HVM. I tried to run it on an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (with svm) box, but I ran into a problem - the virtual disk could not be formatted with 4.2BSD UFS. newfs fails with a message about wrong number of cylinders in group (I can post the exact error if someone is interrested). I tried to use a LVM2 partition, a file image and a mounted file image as a disk for OpenBSD DomU. Dom0 is running Fedora Core 6/i386 with Xen 3.0.3 rc1. (There was also another issue with the network not functioning, but I''ll dig into that if I manage to create and format a partition under OpenBSD.) Regards, -- Alexander Iliev _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> I''m just checking whether someone has had success in running > OpenBSD 3.9 or 4.0/i386 on Xen 3 with HVM. > > I tried to run it on an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (with svm) box, > but I ran into a problem - the virtual disk could not be > formatted with 4.2BSD UFS. newfs fails with a message about > wrong number of cylinders in group (I can post the exact error > if someone is interrested).I tried this too, but haven''t even reached that point yet, because the screen output in the Xen/virtual console during the installation process doesn''t work the way it should - characters are displayed but not deleted from the screen when the display ist scrolling, so the screen is always completely filled with characters. This is so annoying that I gave up... Did you encounter this problem too? How did you solve it? Would you please send your domains config file? Thanks! Regards Christoph _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, On 11/10/06, Alexander Iliev <sasoiliev@mamul.org> wrote:> Hi all. > > I''m just checking whether someone has had success in running > OpenBSD 3.9 or 4.0/i386 on Xen 3 with HVM.As far as I know, no *BSD runs in hvm mode on Xen currently, only Linux and Windows. There are some threads about that - sorry, I don''t remember the names of those, as well as I don''t remember what the exact problems are and if/when they will be solved. Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 11/18/06, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@gmx.de> wrote:> As far as I know, no *BSD runs in hvm mode on Xen currently, only > Linux and Windows. There are some threads about that - sorry, I don''t > remember the names of those, as well as I don''t remember what the > exact problems are and if/when they will be solved.BTW, I''d be happy to hear better news about this :) Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Henning Sprang wrote:> As far as I know, no *BSD runs in hvm mode on Xen currently, only > Linux and Windows. There are some threads about that - sorry, I don''t > remember the names of those, as well as I don''t remember what the > exact problems are and if/when they will be solved.Good to know the problem is not in my configs. Thanks, I''ll google for the threads. Regards, -- Alexander Iliev _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Christoph Peus wrote:> I tried this too, but haven''t even reached that point yet, because the > screen output in the Xen/virtual console during the installation process > doesn''t work the way it should - characters are displayed but not > deleted from the screen when the display ist scrolling, so the screen is > always completely filled with characters. This is so annoying that I > gave up... > Did you encounter this problem too? How did you solve it? Would you > please send your domains config file?Yes, indeed the screen was filled with chars in my case too, and no, I didn''t fix it :). I just proceeded with the installation anyway. Regards, -- Alexander Iliev _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi , has anybody some experinece with Win 2003 server on Xen 3.0.3 with more than 2GB RAM ? cause i have a problem with mem set : mem=2048 or more with mem=2047 everything is ok. also mem=2048+ for dom0 is fine. - - -- S uctou Igor Fajcik - - -- zooom.sk s.r.o., Prievozska 32, 82105 Bratislava, Slovakia email : igor.fajcik@zooom.sk www : http://www.zooom.sk skype : shadowik - - -------------------------- zooomware -> priatelske IT - - -------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFYEUkoN6BJHrqPk4RAvW0AKDFBIqRSw4ynnrOzHwW/TeilqWiWACfQRU/ GV0B/FcE3C9C35bk4hgpUWs=lSE6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi ,> has anybody some experinece with Win 2003 server on Xen 3.0.3 with > more than 2GB RAM ? > cause i have a problem with mem set : mem=2048 or more > with mem=2047 everything is ok. > > also mem=2048+ for dom0 is fine. > > - -- > S uctou > Igor Fajcik > - -- > zooom.sk s.r.o., Prievozska 32, 82105 Bratislava, Slovakia email : > igor.fajcik@zooom.sk > www : http://www.zooom.sk > skype : shadowik > - -------------------------- > zooomware -> priatelske IT > - --------------------------_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Obviously, nagging doesn''t work, as three or five posts on the same post got no result. The magicalness of 2048MB is that it''s a negative number (0x80000000) in the computers sense, so that may have something to do with it. It''s probably a bug. There''s also problems with the limit of how much memory qemu-dm can map in 32-bit mode, as it''s a user-mode processs, and it wouldn''t be able to map much more than 2GB... [That comes from practical experience]. In 64-bit mode that limit shouldn''t be there, and most likely the 2GB -> negative number may disappear too. -- Mats> -----Original Message----- > From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of > Igor Fajcik > Sent: 19 November 2006 11:51 > To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: [Xen-users] Win 2003 server on Xen 3 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi , > has anybody some experinece with Win 2003 server on Xen 3.0.3 with > more than 2GB RAM ? > cause i have a problem with mem set : mem=2048 or more > with mem=2047 everything is ok. > > also mem=2048+ for dom0 is fine. > > - - -- > S uctou > Igor Fajcik > - - -- > zooom.sk s.r.o., Prievozska 32, 82105 Bratislava, Slovakia email : > igor.fajcik@zooom.sk > www : http://www.zooom.sk > skype : shadowik > - - -------------------------- > zooomware -> priatelske IT > - - -------------------------- > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFYEUkoN6BJHrqPk4RAvW0AKDFBIqRSw4ynnrOzHwW/TeilqWiWACfQRU/ > GV0B/FcE3C9C35bk4hgpUWs> =lSE6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Alexander Iliev wrote:> > Henning Sprang wrote: > > > >> >> As far as I know, no *BSD runs in hvm mode on Xen currently, only >> >> Linux and Windows. There are some threads about that - sorry, I don''t >> >> remember the names of those, as well as I don''t remember what the >> >> exact problems are and if/when they will be solved. >> >> >>You may have seen this project for OpenBSD on xen, which doesn''t need hvm mode. http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user I can get the Openbsd kernel to boot, however I have trouble getting it to find the ramdisk. Perhaps someone can help me from here. ---><----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- xen:/etc/xen# xm create openbsd.cfg -c Using config file "openbsd.cfg". Started domain openbsd [ using 189284 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2006 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.0-current (RAMDISK_XENU) #0: Wed Nov 15 09:40:34 EST 2006 ben@openbsd.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com:/usr/src/openbsd-xen-sys.hg/arch/xen/compile/RAMDISK_XENU cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.66 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID real mem = 128950272 (125928K) avail mem = 117112832 (114368K) using 1599 buffers containing 6549504 bytes (6396K) of memory mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0 hypervisor0 at mainbus0 debug virtual interrupt using event channel 3 xenbus0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Bus Interface xencons0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Console Driver xencons0: console major 86, unit 0 xencons0: using event channel 2 npx0 at hypervisor0: using exception 16 Xen clock: using event channel 4 rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks xenbus0: using event channel 1 root on rd0a rootdev=0x1100 rrootdev=0x2f00 rawdev=0x2f02 panic: root filesystem has size 0 Stopped at Debugger+0x4: popl %ebp RUN AT LEAST ''trace'' AND ''ps'' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC! DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION! ddb> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------><-------------------------- Cheers Ben --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0649-2, 20/11/2006 Tested on: 21/11/2006 8:42:17 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Alexander Iliev wrote:>> > > Henning Sprang wrote: >> > > >> > > > >>>> >> >> As far as I know, no *BSD runs in hvm mode on Xen currently, only >>>> >> >> Linux and Windows. There are some threads about that - sorry, I don''t >>>> >> >> remember the names of those, as well as I don''t remember what the >>>> >> >> exact problems are and if/when they will be solved. >>>> >> >> >>>> >> >> >>You may have seen this project for OpenBSD on xen, which doesn''t need hvm mode. http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/21/openbsd-xen-boots-multi-user I can get the Openbsd kernel to boot, however I have trouble getting it to find the ramdisk. Perhaps someone can help me from here. ---><----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- xen:/etc/xen# xm create openbsd.cfg -c Using config file "openbsd.cfg". Started domain openbsd [ using 189284 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2006 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 4.0-current (RAMDISK_XENU) #0: Wed Nov 15 09:40:34 EST 2006 ben@openbsd.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com:/usr/src/openbsd-xen-sys.hg/arch/xen/compile/RAMDISK_XENU cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.66 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID real mem = 128950272 (125928K) avail mem = 117112832 (114368K) using 1599 buffers containing 6549504 bytes (6396K) of memory mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0 hypervisor0 at mainbus0 debug virtual interrupt using event channel 3 xenbus0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Bus Interface xencons0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Console Driver xencons0: console major 86, unit 0 xencons0: using event channel 2 npx0 at hypervisor0: using exception 16 Xen clock: using event channel 4 rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks xenbus0: using event channel 1 root on rd0a rootdev=0x1100 rrootdev=0x2f00 rawdev=0x2f02 panic: root filesystem has size 0 Stopped at Debugger+0x4: popl %ebp RUN AT LEAST ''trace'' AND ''ps'' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC! DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION! ddb> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------><-------------------------- Cheers Ben --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0649-2, 20/11/2006 Tested on: 21/11/2006 8:44:14 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, On 11/20/06, Xen Maiing Lists <xen@blueturtles.com> wrote:> [...] >You may have seen this project for OpenBSD on xen, which doesn''t need >hvm mode.Thanks. Still, I want to just drop in an iso and try new versions of these Unixes, just for curiosity and playing around. So being able to beeot them in hvm mode would be really cool.> I can get the Openbsd kernel to boot, however I have trouble getting it > to find the ramdisk. Perhaps someone can help me from here.when xen doesn''t find the ramdisk, it does not boot the machine at all. In your logs it seesm to boot, and I see no message about a missing ramdisk - are you sure the problem is the ramdisk? Maybe the developers working on it have some more hints. Henning _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users