Re: FreeBSD/Xen ugliness

[Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>]

Due to some changes in my environment (all of the 5.2.1 machines are
being converted to 5.3 and 5.2.1 doesn't compile with 3.4.1), I'm
integrating the 5.3 changes to i386 into the xen port. It looks like
pmap.c is the only file I depend on that was heavily changed, so I may
be running 5.3 under Xen by the end of this weekend. If you could just
hold off until then...

Thanks.

					-Kip



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.
>    - 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.
>    - Had to hand-edit several of the copied headers, so they'd include
> files on the right paths.
>    - 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Derrik Pates
> dpates@dsdk12.net
>
>
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