Re: HVM FreeBSD with w/ vmxassist=n

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

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:58:48PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 18:32 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > > All:
> > > 
> > > There is some very recent discussion on the Xen lists about making
> > > FreeBSD work under HVM.  The trick is to recompile the binaries
> > > declaring 'vmxassist=n'.  Presumably we would do that using pkgsrc.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have FreeBSD working as an HVM guest?  Is this hack
> > > required?  Hopefully not a 3.2-only issue.
> > 
> > This is required on Intel CPUs. For AMD CPUs, you don't need vmxassist
> > at all.
> 
> I'm going to give Xen another go next week. I'll use amd64/-current as
> of Monday.
> 
> The hardware platform will actually be an older R1 of the PE2950 (older
> chipset, older dual core Xeons w/ Hyperthreading -- hopefully VMX cpu
> extensions) 
> 
> The metric for success will be a functional HVM DomU of RHEL5/x86_64,
> FreeBSD 6.3/amd64, and WinXP.  Otherwise I'll have to spend another year
> using VMWare to simulate machine in our lab -- which would really
> suck :)
> 
> I'm going to go with "vmxassist=n" would be a MAKE_ENV+= argument in
> sysutils/xentools3-hvm/Makefile and sysutils/xentools3/Makefile

And sysutils/xenkernel3/Makefile - I suspect vmxassist is mostly a kernel
thing.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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