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Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)

To: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 Dom0(64-bit)
From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Freddie,
Is your box built on AMD chips ?
I was told that Intel (C2D) based boxes wouldn't
support some Xen 3.2 VT code.

--- On Fri, 4/25/08, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] HVM FreeBSD 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2 CentOS 5.1 
> Dom0(64-bit)
> To: "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, April 25, 2008, 5:15 PM
> On April 25, 2008 01:08 pm you wrote:
> > Freddie Cash wrote:
> > > On April 25, 2008 12:13 pm Boris Derzhavets
> wrote:
> > > > Would it be possible to install HVM FreeBSD
> 7.0 DomU at Xen 3.2
> > > > CentOS 5.1 Dom0 (64-bit) ?
> > >
> > > You would have to install the 64-bit version of
> FreeBSD.  I'm told
> > > running 32-bit guests on a 64-bit hosts
> doesn't work in CentOS 5.1
> > > (will work in 5.2).
> >
> > Nah, the OP is running the Xen 3.2 which will allow
> 32-bit PVMs and
> > HVMS to run correctly on 64-bit dom0.
> 
> Ah, good to know.  Thanks for the update.  So it was just
> the CentOS Xen 
> 3.1 packages with the limitations?
> 
> > > I've successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3
> (32-bit and 64-bit) and
> > > FreeBSD 7.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) in Xen 3.2 HVMs
> running on 64-bit
> > > Ubuntu Hardy using 2.4.24 for the dom0.  (As well
> as in KVM HVMs
> > > running on Debian Lenny, 2.6.22 and 2.6.24.)
> >
> > It should work.
> >
> > Now FreeBSD PVM, well I would like to know if that
> works.
> 
> I've never managed to get the domU kernels for FreeBSD
> to run.  Didn't 
> spend much time on it, though, as our test box had hardware
> 
> virtualisation support, so we moved to HVMs right away.
> 
> -- 
> Freddie Cash
> fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx
> 
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