Re: [Xen-devel] freebsd domU boot problem

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Error that we are getting is "guest type xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by
> xen kernel"
>
>
> If you have noticed above in the output of xm info
> xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p
> Does this "p" in xen-3.0-x86_32p stands for PAE ?

Yes.

> Should there be an explicit mention of xen-3.0-x86_32 in xen_caps ?
> If yes , what determines the type of supported guests ?

You are running a 32-bit PAE Xen, which means that paravirtualised guests must 
be 32-bit PAE also.

As far as I know the *BSD ports only run on non-PAE Xen (at the moment), which 
was the default Xen build when those ports were done.

If you build a non-PAE Xen then you may have some luck running these guests.  
You can build non-PAE Linuxes to run on there too.  But you won't be able to 
run PAE guests of either PV or HVM type anymore.

Cheers,
Mark

>
> Thanks,
> Sanket
>
> Christoph Egger wrote:
> > On Monday 12 November 2007 12:31:07 sanket hase wrote:
> >> Hi  Folks   ,
> >>
> >> Heres something
> >>
> >> xen412:/etc/xen#  xm create -c freebsd_xen
> >> Using config file "./freebsd_xen".
> >> Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_compat_check: guest type
> >> xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel, sorry\n')
> >>
> >> Whats with "guest type xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel" ?
> >
> > "xm info" tells you what guest types are supported.
> >
> > To me, it looks like you are running a 64bit hypervisor and you try to
> > launch a paravirtualized FreeBSD 32bit DomU which has no PAE support.
> >
> >
> >
> > Christoph
>
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