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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2018 18:00:43 +0100
From:      Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To:        Pratyush Yadav <pratiy0100@gmail.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is it possible to run Xen in a VirtualBox VM?
Message-ID:  <20180514170043.z3netvhmdmwnjmq3@MacBook-Pro-de-Roger.local>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2BX=3T%2B0bhK9Y5cau46r0PSPi-TWk-OJ2k-s5pHaZOmgbMxMwg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:25:21PM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried running Xen in a VirtualBox guest and it errors in the boot
> process giving this error:
> 
> xenoprof: Initialization failed. Intel processor family 6 model 60 is
> not supported.
> Dom0 has maximum 600 PIRQs
> 
> ***********************
> Panic on cpu 0:
> Error creating domain 0
> ***********************
> 
> So, is it even possible to run Xen in a VM? If it is, how can I fix
> this problem?

It's likely possible to run Xen + Linux Dom0 inside of VirtualBox, but
it's almost certainly not possible to run Xen + FreeBSD inside of
VirtualBox because it would require an emulated IOMMU, which I don't
think VirtualBox provides.

Roger.



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