FreeBSD/Xen ugliness

[Derrik Pates <dpates@dsdk12.net>]

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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