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Re: [Xen-devel] http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/ dead?

To: Nils Toedtmann <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/ dead?
From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:27:03 -0700
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> While playing around with it, i realized that the demo xenofreebsd
> kernel is very instable (segfaulting csh; hole system goes to lunch
> while "xm list" thinks it's still running). And btw: "reboot" does not
> work from inside (it just halts) and 

The current version of xenofreebsd has, to the best of my knowledge,
fixes for all those bugs. Let me know if you still have problems. I
don't know any way to make "reboot" work from inside the guest.

> "xm shutdown freebsd" does nothing,
> but this is a missing feature, not a bug, right?

More of a missing feature. I've never wanted "xm shutdown", so I never
thought about it.


> 
> I hope i manage to compile a more recent xenofreebsd kernel before it
> crashes again ;)

I don't have 2.0.5 tree, otherwise I'd build you one.

     -Kip

> 
> /nils.
> 
> ps: anybody got a _simple_ /etc/xen/freebsd? This works for me -  more
> or less:
> 
>   kernel  = "/boot/xenU/freebsd-5.3-xendemo-2.0.5"
>   memory  = 64
>   name    = "freebsd"
>   nics    = 1
>   vif     = [ 'mac=FE:FD:00:DE:AD:11' ]
>   disk    = [ 'file:/home/xen/images/freebsd-5.3-
> xendemo-2.0.5.test.slice,hda1,w' ]
>   extra   = ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd0a"
>   restart = 'onreboot'
> 
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