Re: progress on xen3 HVM support

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

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:55:11PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> attached is a snapshot of a xentools30-vmx package, which should install on 
> top
> of xentools30 the necessary bits for starting HVM guests. This is based on
> patches sent to me by Pierrick Brossin. It's good enough to start a linux
> bootable CD up to the X graphical installer (I didn't try to install it yet).
> It needs a very recent current kernel.
> 
> Known bugs
> - as is, qemu-dm won't start. I renamed it and remplaced with a csh script
>   which does
> #!/bin/csh
> unlimit
> setenv PTHREAD_DIAGASSERT A
> /usr/pkg/libexec/qemu-dm.bin $*
> 
>   yes, it has pthread bugs :(
> - the compiled hvmloader crashes early. Using the hvmloader provided in
>   xen-3.0.2-2-install-x86_32.tgz works.

attached is an updated version of the package, which produce a working
hvmloader. The unlimit and PTHREAD_DIAGASSERT are still needed for qemu-dm

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