Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 22:49:43 +0530 From: Pratyush Yadav <pratiy0100@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to run Xen in a VirtualBox VM? Message-ID: <CA%2BX=3TJvVcyRWpxg5L2mc_0aSaudcGCmuPRub-oxF3kjM9TEzA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180514170043.z3netvhmdmwnjmq3@MacBook-Pro-de-Roger.local> References: <CA%2BX=3T%2B0bhK9Y5cau46r0PSPi-TWk-OJ2k-s5pHaZOmgbMxMwg@mail.gmail.com> <20180514170043.z3netvhmdmwnjmq3@MacBook-Pro-de-Roger.local>
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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <roger.pau@citrix.co= m> wrote: > 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. I am working on the Xen grant table handlers (for my Google Summer of Code project [0]) , so do you think I would need to run Xen + FreeBSD when testing? Also, how can I fix the error I'm currently getting about Intel processor not being supported? --=20 Regards, Pratyush Yadav [0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6165033877241856
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