Re: FreeBSD/Xen kernel

[Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>]

Like I said in my initial post - any feedback would be *much
appreciated* :-).


			-Kip


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Chris Andrews wrote:

>
> On 16 Dec 2004, at 19:20, Kip Macy wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you using an uncompressed copy of the mdroot I posted?
> >
> > Duh - obviously. The only thing I can think of is that the mdroot is
> > corrupted. I'll double check the bits I've posted.
>
> I got exactly these symptoms with the posted mdroot, and we fixed
> it with a slightly different block device export. I'm using this
> as my domain definition:
>
> kernel = "/boot/freebsd-5.2.1-xenU"
> memory = 64
> cpu = -1
> name = "XXVIII"
> nics=1
> vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:00:00:28, bridge=xen-br0' ]
> disk = [ 'phy:munkyII/vm-XXVIII,loopa,w' ]
> extra = "boot.netif.ip=10.1.70.28"
> extra += ",boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.240"
> extra += ",boot.netif.gateway=10.1.70.17"
> extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd0a"
> extra += ",boot_verbose=yes"
>
> I've put the mdroot image on a devicemapper device,
> /dev/munkyII/vm-XXVIII.
> This domain boots fine, although I do get this kind of log message to
> the console after a while:
>
> Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc008c730(0) 0.010000091 s
>
> and the domain chews through CPU time as indicated by 'xm list' even
> when
> apparently idle. I haven't played much beyond that though.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
>
>
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