[Xen-users] Booting/Installing FreeBSD in HVM

[Scott Garron <web-xenbugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     I've been trying, without much luck, to run FreeBSD in a
xen-unstable guest HVM.  I have, however, had success in getting Windows
XP and even Debian to install and run with a similar configuration.
I've even gone so far as to boot the physical machine from the FreeBSD
installation CD, install it to a real drive, boot back into the Xen0 and
then attempt to export that FreeBSD physical block device to the HVM
with the same results:  An ever-repeating display of register
information followed by a "BTX Halted" message:

int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00010046  eip=000090db
eax=00050033  ebx=00002820  ecx=00000000  edx=0000a000
esi=00009701  edi=00051f98  ebp=00007bea  esp=00001800
cs=0008  ds=0000  es=0000    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 01 15 d0 96 00 00 66-ea e8 90 18 00 b1 20 8e
       d1 8e d9 8e c1 8e e1 8e-e9 48 0f 22 c0 ea fd 90
ss:esp=0a 69 6e 74 3d 30 30 30-30 30 30 30 64 20 20 65
       72 72 3d 30 30 30 30 30-30 30 30 20 20 65 66 6c
BTX halted

     The hardware is a Supermicro server motherboard with two dual core
Xeon 5140's (2.33GHz).

     I've found a bug report that was submitted back in mid April (
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622 ) which
describes the same problem.  It was updated in mid August by someone
else who was having the same problem, and it's still an open "NEW" bug.

     I have a specific need to run FreeBSD, but I don't want to have to
dedicate an entire server to it.  It would be ideal to run it as a
virtual machine but it seems like there's just no way to do it without
going back a few versions where paravirtualized FreeBSD was working.
That brings me to these two questions:

1.  Has anyone actually been able to make a recent version of FreeBSD
run as a domU in any capacity on Xen 3.0.2 or unstable?

2.  Has there been any progress toward making the Xen 3.x
paravirtualized x86_64 FreeBSD?

--
Scott Garron


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