Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:20:48 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>, <xen@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen? Message-ID: <55C35F30.8020309@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <F6E8E187709040F3CEAD6F74@[10.12.30.106]> References: <D313A9262AEA2AC29FCC4A1C@[10.12.30.106]> <55BB8392.4050000@citrix.com> <DA1AF0173D2A62540BEEF420@[10.12.30.106]> <55BB8DB2.6040705@citrix.com> <3544DE5D0E56BBBE05C573B4@[10.12.30.106]> <55C34932.10307@citrix.com> <F6E8E187709040F3CEAD6F74@[10.12.30.106]>
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El 06/08/15 a les 15.06, Karl Pielorz ha escrit: > > --On 06 August 2015 13:46 +0200 Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Sorry for the delay, as usual I've been busy with a bunch of other >> stuff. You can find the patch against HEAD here: >> >> https://people.freebsd.org/~royger/0001-xen-allow-disabling-PV-disks-and- >> nics.patch >> >> The description is self-explanatory I think. I've not tried to apply it >> to stable-10, but I don't think there have been many changes in this >> area in general. If you need help backporting it ping me and I will >> provide a suitable version. > > Hi, > > Thanks for the patch! - I couldn't apply it automatically (not entirely > sure what to do with a git diff like that :) - and, the hvm.c part of > patch wouldn't apply cleanly anyway (too much difference). > > *Having said that* - I applied it by hand to my 10.1-R system, and it > seems to work perfectly. I've put the XENHVM and xenpci back in the > kernel, re-enabled veridian for that VM, and put > 'hw.xen.disable_pv_nics=1' in boot loader. > > I now have a PV disk, but HVM NIC (re0) based machine - that's agile, > and works with OpenVPN and inter-VM routing. > > I can post the standard 'diff -u' patchset against 10.1 back to the list > if needed (I know other people had PV NIC issues and were using the same > non-agile "boot as HVM" fix for it). I'm going to let the patch sit here for a while so people can test/comment. Since I'm going on vacations next week, if there are no complains I'm planning to apply it when I'm back on the 17th. Roger.
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