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Re: [Xen-users] FreeBSD + Xen 3.2.1 + HVM assorted problems

To: Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] FreeBSD + Xen 3.2.1 + HVM assorted problems
From: Joe Auty <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:03:04 -0400
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Igor Chubin wrote:
| ...
|> 1) First of all, I'm not able to get a console to appear either by doing:
|>
|> xm create -c Dorian
|>
|> or
|>
|> xm console Dorian
|>
|>
|> The only way I'm able to get a console is via VNC. I've played around
|> with various config options and have managed to get:
|>
|> xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
|
|
| You are not supposed to attach to the console of an HVM-domain
| using xm console.
| You should use vncviewer for it.
|
| Although, if you really need it,
| you should set up the serial console
| inside the guest domain and after
| that you may try to connect to it
| using xm console.
|
| Here [1] an explanation how can you
| set up the serial console in FreeBSD.
|
| [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
|

Ahhh.. so this option is only for physical serial consoles that are
setup to control the guest. Silly me!



|
|> My qemu log shows:
|>
|> I/O request not ready: 0, ptr: 0, port: 0, data: 0, count: 0, size: 0
|> I/O request not ready: 0, ptr: 0, port: 0, data: 0, count: 0, size: 0
|>
|>
|> 2) Looking at the startup of the FreeBSD kernel I see a couple of APIC
|> errors. I don't know if these are actually causing any problems, but I
|> get kernel panics if I start with apic on in my Xen config file. I'd
|> include these errors, but they fly by too quickly. However, FreeBSD
does
|> proceed past this point...
|>
|> 3) Whether I startup with a disk image I created in KVM or off the
|> FreeBSD CD, I'm not able to see my disks. If I boot off the CD I get:
|>
|> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
|>
|> and off my disk image it just asks me for a disk to boot off of once
the
|> kernel has been loaded. I don't understand why it sees the kernel but
|> not my other slices.
|>
|>
|>
|> To get this far, I installed Xen via an RPM that included the
|> "vmxassist=no" necessary to work on my 64 bit Intel CPU.
|>
|>
|> Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
|>
|>
|>
|> --
|> Joe Auty
|> NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
|> http://www.netmusician.org
|> joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>
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Joe Auty
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http://www.netmusician.org
joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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