Re: SOLVED: Installing FreeBSD 8 as domU

[Hugo Silva <hugo%barafranca.com@localhost>]

On 05/31/11 20:31, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Are you sure you use a HVMPV kernel then, and not plain PV loaded directly
> by Xen ?
> AFAIK, the BIOS started in the HVM domU, as well as the OS bootloader started
> from this BIOS, only knows how to access the virtual disk via the emulated
> PCIIDE controller. If you start a HVM domU with no ioemu virtual disk,
> then the HVM's BIOS doesn't have a disk to boot from.
> 

Pretty sure:

# egrep "kernel|phy:" ftest.conf
kernel = "/usr/pkg/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
    'phy:/dev/mapper/cryptovg0-disposable,hda,w',
    'phy:/dev/mapper/vg2-disposable_swap0,hdb,w',


Regards,

Hugo