Re: SOLVED: Installing FreeBSD 8 as domU

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

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 08:35:00PM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote:
> 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',

strange; I'm sure I ran into this again when I tested the FreeBSD
XENHVM kernel ...

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