[Xen-users] Qemu/Bios/Devices different in xm and xl?

[Carsten from Virtastic <carsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I've just migrated a bunch of servers from CentOS 5.6 / Xen 3.4.3 to CentOS 6.0 
/ Xen 4.1.1  (Kernel 2.6.32.43 w/ pvops, "Jeremy Edition" :))

For some guests, in particular FreeBSD HVM guests, I notice a difference 
between "xm" and "xl", more precisely they fail to detect the second block 
device (LVM backend) with "xl" and terminate with kernel panic, whereas they 
start just fine with "xm". Now, "xm" is going to be deprecated soon. 

Does anyone know what the actual difference is? This is the domain 
configuration, which should be easy and straight-forward enough...

======

kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

memory = 2048
name = "db2"

vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0.127', 'bridge=xenbr1.127' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/disk2/db2.root,hda,w', 
         'phy:/dev/disk2/db2.mysql,hdb,w' ]
vcpus = 2

vnc=1
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
vncdisplay=3
serial='pty'

======

Guest is running FreeBSD 8.2, XENHVM-kernel, amd64 (or x86_64 in Linux terms)

The whole issue is not critical at the moment, because I can still fire the 
guests up with "xm", but I'd rather stick to the recommendations/standards, 
which would be "xl" for Xen 4.1+.

Thanks guys!

Cheers
Carsten





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