From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sanket Hase Subject: Re: freebsd domU boot problem Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:57:06 -0500 Message-ID: <473BC392.3010908@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4738397B.9050406@andrew.cmu.edu> <200711121406.07539.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200711121406.07539.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Christoph Egger Cc: Kip Macy , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Here is the output of my "xm info" xen412:~# xm info host : **** release : 2.6.18-xen version : #1 SMP Mon Oct 29 19:45:43 EDT 2007 machine : i686 nr_cpus : 2 nr_nodes : 1 sockets_per_node : 2 cores_per_socket : 1 threads_per_core : 1 cpu_mhz : 864 hw_caps : 0383fbff:00000000:00000000:00000040 total_memory : 1023 free_memory : 256 xen_major : 3 xen_minor : 1 xen_extra : .0 xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32p xen_scheduler : credit xen_pagesize : 4096 platform_params : virt_start=0xf5800000 xen_changeset : unavailable cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) cc_compile_by : root cc_compile_domain : **** cc_compile_date : Sat Oct 27 23:23:39 EDT 2007 xend_config_format : 4 Error that we are getting is "guest type xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel" If you have noticed above in the output of xm info xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_32p Does this "p" in xen-3.0-x86_32p stands for PAE ? Should there be an explicit mention of xen-3.0-x86_32 in xen_caps ? If yes , what determines the type of supported guests ? Thanks, Sanket Christoph Egger wrote: > On Monday 12 November 2007 12:31:07 sanket hase wrote: >> Hi Folks , >> >> Heres something >> >> xen412:/etc/xen# xm create -c freebsd_xen >> Using config file "./freebsd_xen". >> Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_compat_check: guest type >> xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel, sorry\n') >> >> Whats with "guest type xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel" ? > > "xm info" tells you what guest types are supported. > > To me, it looks like you are running a 64bit hypervisor and you try to launch > a paravirtualized FreeBSD 32bit DomU which has no PAE support. > > > > Christoph > >