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

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

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>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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