Re: Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-05-29 Thread Larry Melia
Hi Alexander, Thanks for your help. I've been working on getting the dummy driver to load at boot time, but having some issues. After rereading your comments, however, I'm wondering if I'm overriding the correct driver. I've been trying to override the pci-ata driver, but should I be PCI bus drive

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 28/05/13 23:33, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/28/13 12:18, Matt Wilson wrote: >> VCPUOP_set_singleshot_timer returns -EINVAL when: >> >> 1) the specified vCPU ID is out of range (<0 or >MAX_VIRT_CPUS) >> 2) the specified vCPU ID doesn't match the running vCPU. >> >> It seems that there is a conf

Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On May 28, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Craig Rodrigues > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: >> >>> >>> I wrote a blog post specifically for installing 10-CURRENT from a snapshot ISO and getting bootstrapped

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks Matt and Colin for the testing and help! I've pushed yet another > version, now it's branch pvhvm_v12, which I *think* should solve the > issues with cpuid != acpi_id: > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=peop

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 29/05/13 19:22, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Thanks Matt and Colin for the testing and help! I've pushed yet another >> version, now it's branch pvhvm_v12, which I *think* should solve the >> issues with cpuid != acpi_id

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/29/13 10:45, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Oh, sure, more changes where needed in order to get it to work, like > using acpi_id to map the vcpu_info and perform the cpu bindings. Ah, that explains it. I looked at timer.c for other places where that change was needed but it didn't occur to me tha

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > On 29/05/13 19:22, Matt Wilson wrote: > > Colin, can you build an AMI with this new kernel? > > Done, ami-95177dfc in us-east-1. > > This is now booting successfully on cr1.8xlarge; are there any other instance > types I should tes

Re: [Xen-devel] FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
On 05/29/13 15:19, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >> On 29/05/13 19:22, Matt Wilson wrote: >>> Colin, can you build an AMI with this new kernel? >> >> Done, ami-95177dfc in us-east-1. >> >> This is now booting successfully on cr1.8xlarge; are th