Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:29:25 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> Cc: <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting Windows/UEFI (was Re: Booting r298488 as Xen Dom0 may break ZFS pool?) Message-ID: <20160426112925.hmijqrxt52kyswfg@mac> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604261036070.1768@z.fncre.vasb> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604251906400.1768@z.fncre.vasb> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604252000401.1768@z.fncre.vasb> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604252048220.1768@z.fncre.vasb> <20160426071151.ctzdaehgfhzij6q3@mac> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604260715130.1768@z.fncre.vasb> <20160426074302.4i3rv7wd5ogg7ful@mac> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604260811450.1768@z.fncre.vasb> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604260842200.1768@z.fncre.vasb> <20160426093556.oxeh5qyafe3ro6xy@mac> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1604261036070.1768@z.fncre.vasb>
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:39:06AM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Yes, should be easy. Will try to plug a binary port in.
Thanks :).
> By the way, I just managed to crash a whole machine by trying to
> boot Solaris 11.3:
>
> # builder = "hvm"
> memory = 2048
> vcpus = 1
> name = "Solaris0"
> disk = [ 'file:/root/sol-11_3-text-x86.iso,6:cdrom,r', '/dev/zvol/zroot/solaris0,raw,hda,w' ]
> kernel = "/root/xen/solaris/unix"
> ramdisk = "/root/xen/solaris/boot_archive"
> extra = "/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix -B console=ttya,livemode=text"
> #boot = "c"
> usbdevice = 'tablet'
> vnc = 1
> vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'
> vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ]
>
> /root/xen/solaris/unix and /root/xen/solaris/boot_archive where extracted from sol-11_3-text-x86.iso
> ("Intel text-only image").
I don't think you can boot Solaris as a PV guest anymore, you should instead
boot it as a HVM guest. You will have to remove the kernel and ramdisk
options and instead add builder="hvm" (that you have left commented out).
Roger.
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