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[Xen-devel] Re: FreeBSD/Xen ugliness

To: Derrik Pates <dpates@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: FreeBSD/Xen ugliness
From: Darren Tucker <dtucker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:46:09 +1100
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Derrik Pates wrote:
I have still not, as yet, been able to get FreeBSD/Xen to actually
work. It still hangs partway through the kernel boot process.
[...]
Has _anyone_ successfully used FreeBSD/Xen?

I have the prebuilt kernel and root image from http://www.bsdclusters.com/xenofreebsd/ running on a Fedora Core 3 host. My xen config for the guest is below. It seems to work ok but seems to use more cpu time that the other guests (as shown by "xm list").

I found that without the boot.netif.* extras it would hang during boot right after the "GEOM: create disk xbd0" message (or "lo0: bpf" if booted in verbose mode).

kernel = "/xen/freebsd/kernel-5.2.1"
memory = 48
cpu = -1
name = "freebsd"
nics=1
vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:00:00:28,bridge=xen-br0' ]
disk = [ 'file:/xen/freebsd/mdroot,loop0,w' ]
extra = "boot.netif.ip=192.168.32.17"
extra += ",boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.0"
extra += ",boot.netif.gateway=192.168.32.254"
extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd0a"
extra += ",boot_verbose=yes"
#extra += ",boot_single=yes"

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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    Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience
usually comes from bad judgement.


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