Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 13:49:58 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <royger@FreeBSD.org> To: Kai Otto <kai_otto@duckster.net> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: merged PVHv2 support and future plans Message-ID: <20180903114958.liefruwefijv66rv@mac.bytemobile.com> In-Reply-To: <9d28c30b-36f5-4533-c9b4-e40dca3c1621@duckster.net> References: <20180719090444.jojyziar2c6wy735@mac> <20180730101924.aatt5ug33kg6dfil@mac.bytemobile.com> <3781a579-f00f-96fd-8f73-f3f344cd0aad@duckster.net> <20180813171954.2nilwiwsq6yyji66@mac> <9d28c30b-36f5-4533-c9b4-e40dca3c1621@duckster.net>
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Kai Otto wrote: > On 13/08/18 19:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Kai Otto wrote: > >> On 30/07/18 12:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > >>> Packages for Xen 4.11 are now available in pkg. > >>> > >>> Remember that in order to use those you need a very recent FreeBSD > >>> kernel (r336475 or newer) and the Xen command line has slightly changed, > >>> so dom0=pvh must be used instead of dom0pvh in order to boot. I will > >>> see about changing this in the handbook. > >>> > >>> Roger. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >>> > >> > >> Hi Roger, > >> I tried to get some VMs running on > >> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180802-r337160. > >> System is a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ mainboard with dual Intel E5-2680v2 > >> (ivy bridge). > [...] > >> When using xen-tools411/xen-kernel411, I can boot without problems, but > >> when running "xl create", neither a PVH nor HVM config work (see configs > >> and logs attached). > >> They both throw "libxl: info: > >> libxl_create.c:109:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault: qemu-xen is > >> unavailable, using qemu-xen-traditional instead: No such file or directory" > > > > Hello, > > > > This is a mistake of the port makefile which should be fixed in > > r477080 that I've just committed. I hope updated packages will be > > generated soon. Thanks for the testing! > > > > Hello again :-) > > Today I gave it another try with FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA3 r338287 and the > current packages for xen-tools411 and xen-kernel411. Sadly, I didn't get > very far, even with the above bug being fixed. > When attempting to start a HVM config, the console (xl console <domain>) > stays empty and unresponsive. > Connecting via vnc, the screen only shows this message: "Guest has not > initialized the display (yet)". I think this should be fixed by r477953, please make sure you have the following package installed: xen-tools411-4.11.0_4 > When repeatedly running 'xl list', I can see that the domU almost > consumes 1 second of CPU per second walltime. > > Trying out PVH, the console also doesn't show any sign of life, and VNC > says: "This VM has no graphic display device." > Running 'xl list' shows, that the domU consumed about 1.4s of CPU, and > then switched to 'blocked' state. Can you paste the config file you are using to create the PVH guest? And which OS/version are you trying to boot as PVH? Roger.
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