Boris Derzhavets
2008-Apr-25 19:13 UTC
[Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit)
Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0
(64-bit) ?
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Freddie Cash
2008-Apr-25 19:20 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit)
On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets wrote:> Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS > 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ?You would have to install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I''m told running 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 (will work in 5.2). I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and FreeBSD 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs running on 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy using 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well as in KVM HVMs running on Debian Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.) -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Ross S. W. Walker
2008-Apr-25 20:08 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)
Freddie Cash wrote:> On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets wrote: > > Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS > > 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ? > > You would have to install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I''m told running > 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 (will work in > 5.2).Nah, the OP is running the Xen 3.2 which will allow 32-bit PVMs and HVMS to run correctly on 64-bit dom0.> I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and FreeBSD > 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs running on 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy > using 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well as in KVM HVMs running on Debian > Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.)It should work. Now FreeBSD PVM, well I would like to know if that works. -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Freddie Cash
2008-Apr-25 21:15 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)
On April 25, 2008 01:08 pm you wrote:> Freddie Cash wrote: > > On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets wrote: > > > Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 > > > CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ? > > > > You would have to install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I''m told > > running 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 > > (will work in 5.2). > > Nah, the OP is running the Xen 3.2 which will allow 32-bit PVMs and > HVMS to run correctly on 64-bit dom0.Ah, good to know. Thanks for the update. So it was just the CentOS Xen 3.1 packages with the limitations?> > I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and > > FreeBSD 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs running on 64-bit > > Ubuntu Hardy using 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well as in KVM HVMs > > running on Debian Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.) > > It should work. > > Now FreeBSD PVM, well I would like to know if that works.I''ve never managed to get the domU kernels for FreeBSD to run. Didn''t spend much time on it, though, as our test box had hardware virtualisation support, so we moved to HVMs right away. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Boris Derzhavets
2008-Apr-26 04:29 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)
Freddie, Is your box built on AMD chips ? I was told that Intel (C2D) based boxes wouldn''t support some Xen 3.2 VT code. --- On Fri, 4/25/08, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:> From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit) > To: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@medallion.com> > Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Date: Friday, April 25, 2008, 5:15 PM > On April 25, 2008 01:08 pm you wrote: > > Freddie Cash wrote: > > > On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets > wrote: > > > > Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD > 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 > > > > CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ? > > > > > > You would have to install the 64-bit version of > FreeBSD. I''m told > > > running 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts > doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 > > > (will work in 5.2). > > > > Nah, the OP is running the Xen 3.2 which will allow > 32-bit PVMs and > > HVMS to run correctly on 64-bit dom0. > > Ah, good to know. Thanks for the update. So it was just > the CentOS Xen > 3.1 packages with the limitations? > > > > I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 > (32-bit and 64-bit) and > > > FreeBSD 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs > running on 64-bit > > > Ubuntu Hardy using 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well > as in KVM HVMs > > > running on Debian Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.) > > > > It should work. > > > > Now FreeBSD PVM, well I would like to know if that > works. > > I''ve never managed to get the domU kernels for FreeBSD > to run. Didn''t > spend much time on it, though, as our test box had hardware > > virtualisation support, so we moved to HVMs right away. > > -- > Freddie Cash > fjwcash@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Outback Dingo
2008-Apr-26 04:48 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)
ive got good working DomU and Filesystem images for 4G, 8G and 16G working under ubuntu server, with XEN 3.2 though i wouldnt call it completely stable On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:> On April 25, 2008 01:08 pm you wrote: > > Freddie Cash wrote: > > > On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets wrote: > > > > Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 > > > > CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ? > > > > > > You would have to install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I''m told > > > running 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 > > > (will work in 5.2). > > > > Nah, the OP is running the Xen 3.2 which will allow 32-bit PVMs and > > HVMS to run correctly on 64-bit dom0. > Ah, good to know. Thanks for the update. So it was just the CentOS Xen > 3.1 packages with the limitations? > > > > I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and > > > FreeBSD 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs running on 64-bit > > > Ubuntu Hardy using 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well as in KVM HVMs > > > running on Debian Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.) > > > > It should work. > > > > Now FreeBSD PVM, well I would like to know if that works. > > I''ve never managed to get the domU kernels for FreeBSD to run. Didn''t > spend much time on it, though, as our test box had hardware > virtualisation support, so we moved to HVMs right away. > > -- > Freddie Cash > fjwcash@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
Freddie Cash
2008-Apr-26 18:31 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@yahoo.com> wrote:> Freddie, > Is your box built on AMD chips ? > I was told that Intel (C2D) based boxes wouldn''t > support some Xen 3.2 VT code.Yes, we''re using AMD processors (our shop has been 98% AMD since the Athlon-MP was released). Although Xen 3.2 is supposed to have the fixes needed to run FreeBSD in an HVM on Intel CPUs. Our setup: Tyan h2000M motherbord 2x dual-core Opteron 2200-series @ 2.8 GHz 8 GB DDR2-667 ECC SDRAM 3Ware 9650SE-12ML PCIe RAID controller 12x 500 GB SATA-II HDs in a RAID6 (auto-carved into 1 TB chunks and then added to an LVM volume group, since device-mapper in Debian Lenny chokes on pysical devices larger than 2 TB) 24-bay hotswappable SATA backplane Intel Pro/1000MT quad-port PCIe NIC 5U case with 4-way redundant powersupply Originally running Ubuntu Hardy with Xen 3.2 Currently running Debian Lenny with KVM-60 I had the following Xen 3.2 HVMs running on the system: 2x 32-bit FreeBSD 6.2 2x 32-bit FreeBSD 7.0 1x 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0 1x 32-bit Windows XP 2x 32-bit CentOS 5.1 (these have since been replaced with 64-bit CentOS 5.1 installs) Since these were done using logical volumes as the basis for the virtual harddrives, I was able to keep the storage while I did a bunch of Debian and Ubuntu installs trying to find the most stable Xen setup. Then when I moved to KVM, it was as as simple as pointing KVM to same logical volume. The Xen setup had 4 separate bridges (eth0 through 3, gigabit ports) that I manually assigned to the various HVMs, since I was never able to get a bonded interface in the dom0 to pass packets through the bridge. The KVM setup has a single bridge device comprised of a bonded interface made up of the 4 gigabit interfaces. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Rudi Ahlers
2008-Apr-27 11:00 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit)
Freddie Cash wrote:> On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets wrote: > >> Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS >> 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ? >> > > You would have to install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I''m told running > 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 (will work in > 5.2). > > I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and FreeBSD > 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs running on 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy > using 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well as in KVM HVMs running on Debian > Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.) > >So, is this a problem with the CentOS 5.1 code? Or is it a problem with the Xen 3.2 for CentOS 5.1? How stable is Ubuntu for this kind of setup? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Outback Dingo
2008-Apr-27 14:00 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit)
id say ubuntu-server + xen-ubuntu-server installed would be a good choice, its what i use though im not HVM, just straight virtualization and FreeBSD runs ok for the most part there seem to be compiler issues in non-HVM FreeBSD guests. On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@softdux.com> wrote:> Freddie Cash wrote: > >> On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets wrote: >> >> >>> Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS >>> 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ? >>> >>> >> >> You would have to install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. I''m told running >> 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts doesn''t work in CentOS 5.1 (will work in >> 5.2). >> >> I''ve successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) and FreeBSD >> 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs running on 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy using >> 2.4.24 for the dom0. (As well as in KVM HVMs running on Debian Lenny, >> 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.) >> >> >> > So, is this a problem with the CentOS 5.1 code? Or is it a problem with the > Xen 3.2 for CentOS 5.1? > > How stable is Ubuntu for this kind of setup? > > -- > > Kind Regards > Rudi Ahlers > CEO, SoftDux > > Web: http://www.SoftDux.com > Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other > technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting > stuff > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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