Re: hvm domus on netbsd-10 dom0 zvol

["Hauke Fath (SPG)" <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 2024-07-11 22:18, Brad Spencer wrote:
> This uses older directives that may have been completely removed from
> your version of Xen, so it might not work, 

Correct.  ;)

> but the following is how I
> started HVM guests in the past on Xen 4.15 (and 4.8), except that I
> would use LVM block devices.  I don't think that ZFS block devices
> should matter.  There was some condition where I had to use
> 'qemu-xen-traditional', as well, but I have forgotten what that is.  I
> adapted you config from information I used in the past.
>
> kernel = "/usr/pkg/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"

Now in libexec, and the default setting

> device_model_version="qemu-xen-traditional"

libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:2899:libxl__spawn_local_dm: Domain 14:device 
model /usr/pkg/libexec/xen/bin/qe€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€mu-dm is not 
executable: No such file or directory 
                                      €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€
> disk = [ '/dev/zvol/dsk/tank/arch-stick,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> boot='c'

libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:3148:device_model_spawn_outcome: Domain 
17:domain 17 device model: spawn failed (rc=-3)
libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:3368:device_model_postconfig_done: Domain 
17:Post DM startup configs failed, rc=-3
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1914:domcreate_devmodel_started: Domain 
17:device model did not start: -3
libxl: error: libxl_aoutils.c:646:libxl__kill_xs_path: Device Model 
already exited
xenstore-read: couldn't read path /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/17/768/vnd

Cheerio,
Hauke

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