Re: FreeBSD/Xen ugliness

[Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Derrik Pates wrote:

> All:
>
> I have still not, as yet, been able to get FreeBSD/Xen to actually work.
> It still hangs partway through the kernel boot process. I thought I'd
> try to do a build, but unfortunately the instructions which are provided
> in http://www.bsdclusters.com/xenofreebsd/xenbsdsetup.txt don't work at
> all. I've run across the following so far:
>
>    - Couldn't get BitKeeper to work at all on FreeBSD (complains about
> not being licensed?) - was able to work around this by using BitKeeper
> on my PowerBook running Debian.

I should have used the openlogging version of bitkeeper on the
repository. I'll try re-importing the files into a new repository.


>    - The directory that's supposed to be symlinked from the Xen source
> tree _does not exist_. I borrowed the matching files from the NetBSD/Xen
> source tree.

You're probably using a newer version of xen then I was. I only promised
that it work on the version that I was using.


>    - Had to hand-edit several of the copied headers, so they'd include
> files on the right paths.

See above.

>    - There is no 'make kernel-depend'. Doing 'make depend' finally sort
> of worked, until it got to dependency generation for the AIC7xxx
> drivers, at which point it tried to pull in something nonexistant and
> bombed.

This doesn't sound correct - make kernel-depend has always worked for
me. However, I have only built on 5.1 and 5.2.1.


>
> Has _anyone_ successfully used FreeBSD/Xen? I tried e-mailing Kip Macy
> directly, but have gotten no response as yet. If this doesn't work,
> that's fine; however, FreeBSD is not scoring big points with me today,
> as it seems to be giving me fits in assorted ways today. If anyone has
> anything to say at all, it'd be appreciated.

I understand your frustration, having been in the same position dozens
of times before when using "free" open source software (it is only truly
free if your time is free). Nonetheless, there are numerous other
things going on in my life that frequently take priority.

I'm going to try and build FreeBSD against xen-2.0-testing.bk.




				-Kip


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