Re: port-xen/39452: "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-xen/39452; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-xen-maintainer%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-xen/39452: "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:33:18 +0200

 On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:50:00PM +0000, 
thomas%feddersen-engineering.de@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         39452
 > >Category:       port-xen
 > >Synopsis:       "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       critical
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    port-xen-maintainer
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 02 13:50:00 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     Thomas Feddersen
 > >Release:        NetBSD 4.0
 > >Organization:
 > Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Feddersen, Beratender Ingenieur
 > >Environment:
 > NetBSD bremen.feddersen.xx 4.0 NetBSD 4.0 (XEN3_DOM0) #0: Sun Dec 16 
 > 01:20:31 PST 2007  
 > builds@wb34:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/i386/200712160005Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3_DOM0
 >  i386
 > >Description:
 > XEN3_DOM0 i386 and XEN3_DOMU i386 run fine, attempting to start WinXP as a 
 > HVM-DomU results in an errormessage:
 > 
 > # xm create winxp
 > Using config file "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/winxp".
 > Error: (1, 'Internal error', 'Could not deallocate guard page for HVM 
 > guest.\n (25 = Inappropriate ioctl for device)')
 > 
 
 Xen 3.1.4 doens't work with NetBSD 4.0. You need a kernel and userland from
 a recent netbsd-4 branch, and rebuild xentools3 and xentools3-hvm on
 this system (so that it uses the right /usr/include/xen/* files).
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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