I've had a large number of downloads, but this is the first bit of
feedback I've gotten. There have been a number of fixes that have gone
into my local tree, so I should post a new binary - although none have
been related to the problem you are seeing.
Are you using an uncompressed copy of the mdroot I posted?
-Kip
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Derrik Pates wrote:
> All,
>
> Due to interest in the company I work for regarding offering Virtual
> Private Servers based on Xen (by the way, I've been playing with it, and
> have been very pleased), I'd been seeking information on the port of the
> FreeBSD to the Xen hypervisor. I've successfully run various Linux
> distributions (FC2, FC3, Debian, Gentoo) and NetBSD on top of it, so
> far. I finally did find a reference to FreeBSD guests in the list
> archive; unfortunately, so far I've not had any luck trying to boot one.
> So far, the log messages I see when I do 'xm create -c FreeBSDTest' are
> as follows:
>
> Using config file "/etc/xen/FreeBSDTest".
> Started domain FreeBSDTest, console on port 9623
> ************ REMOTE CONSOLE: CTRL-] TO QUIT ********
> WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!
> start_info 0xc02c3000
> start_info->nr_pages 32768
> Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #338: Sat Oct 30 21:56:31 PDT 2004
>
> kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/t/niners/users/xen/bsd/sys/i386-xeno.tot/compile/XENCONF
> Timecounter "ixen" frequency 2393261000 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (2393.26-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf34 Stepping = 4
>
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> real memory = 131129344 (125 MB)
> Physical memory chunk(s):
> 0x00000000002e9000 - 0x0000000007ac9fff, 125702144 bytes (30689 pages)
> avail memory = 123846656 (118 MB)
> random: <entropy source>
> null: <null device, zero device>
> mem: <memory & I/O>
> Device configuration finished.
> procfs registered
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> xc0: <Xen Console> on motherboard
> xn0: bpf attached
> GEOM: create disk xbd0 dp=0xc1e70e84
> GEOM: new disk xbd0
> [0] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0
> [1] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0
> [2] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0
> [3] f:80 typ:165 s(CHS):0/0/1 e(CHS):1023/254/63 s:0 l:50000
> GEOM: Configure xbd0a, start 0 length 4423680 end 4423679
> GEOM: Configure xbd0c, start 0 length 4423680 end 4423679
> lo0: bpf
>
> So far, this is only using the binary kernel that's at
> http://www.bsdclusters.com/xenofreebsd/ ; I'm going to try building the
> kernel on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 install in VMware, but I was hoping someone
> might have some insight as to what is happening. I am running it on top
> of the Xen 2.0.1 hypervisor, with Debian 3.1 (sarge) as the domain0
> instance, using a 2.6.9 kernel (with Xen support added, of course). The
> configuration file for the domain is as follows:
>
> kernel = "/boot/freebsd-5.2.1-xenU"
> memory = 128
> name = "FreeBSDTest"
> disk = [ 'file:/tmp/mfsroot,hda1,w' ]
> hostname = "FreeBSDTest"
> extra = "vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd0c,boot_verbose=yes"
> restart = "onreboot"
>
> If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, they'd be much appreciated.
>
> --
> Derrik Pates
> dpates@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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