FreeBSD-current Xen image
I've put up a recent FreeBSD-current Xen DomU image at http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/xen/ . * the image is a gzip'ed 512meg filesystem installworld/distribution install, around 208 mb. * it includes the grub bootloader info (/boot/grub/menu.lst); a basic /etc/fstab w/ root on "xvd0" and swap on "xvd1", and the xen console (xc0) in /etc/ttys. * The config file in that directory (freebsd-current.sxp) works for me. It assumes one network interface and two block devices on LVM - one for root, one for swap. You should be able to just dd the image into an LVM slice or modify the configuration to use a file (tap:aio IIRC), then "xm create /path/to/file" . "xm console" will give you a working console. Bonus points to you if you then figure out the magic required to boot it to single user mode to run "growfs", then "tunefs -n enable" to enable softupdates, with the requisite fscks and reboots to make sure things stay consistent. I'll document that later. I'm working on DomU releng_7 and releng_6 images at the moment but I'm stuck with a buildworld issue and a kernel panic, respectively. Have fun; Adrian ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Default Xen PVM console?
G'day, I'd like to twiddle the Xen console stuff a little bit to make it easier to bootstrap a PVM. There's a couple of options I can think of: * Patch /etc/ttys to have a default "xc0" Xen console, but disabled (which makes it trivial for users / scripts to disable the syscons console and enable the xc console); * Modify the xenconsole driver to attach to ttyv0 (via a kernel environment variable) so /etc/ttys doesn't need modifying (but this may confuse tools that assumes /dev/ttyvX == syscons.) Opinions? I'd like to sneak in one of these before the release process begins for 8.0. Thanks, Adrian ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Default Xen PVM console?
Adrian Chadd wrote: G'day, I'd like to twiddle the Xen console stuff a little bit to make it easier to bootstrap a PVM. There's a couple of options I can think of: * Patch /etc/ttys to have a default "xc0" Xen console, but disabled (which makes it trivial for users / scripts to disable the syscons console and enable the xc console); * Modify the xenconsole driver to attach to ttyv0 (via a kernel environment variable) so /etc/ttys doesn't need modifying (but this may confuse tools that assumes /dev/ttyvX == syscons.) Opinions? I'd like to sneak in one of these before the release process begins for 8.0. Thanks, Treat xen as a new platform and have a src/etc/etc.xen directory that holds the xen-specific ttys files, along with similar things that it'll likely need. Scott ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
