Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?

Karl Pielorz kpielorz_lst at tdx.co.uk
Fri Jul 31 13:47:25 UTC 2015


Hi,

Is there any way of booting FreeBSD 10.x as HVM under Xen?

I've tried removing,

   options         XENHVM
   device          xenpci

>From the kernel - but this just panics on boot now.

<https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/XenNG> seems to suggest you can no longer 
boot 10 under Xen as HVM?

If I can't boot HVM, I can't get HVM network support (i.e. Realtek) - and I 
can't get that, all the VM's I have to run as HVM due to a number of 
xen/freebsd/network oddities can't be 10.x machines :(

This is painting those roles/systems into non-agile HVM 9.x boxes that have 
no upgrade path now :(

Unless there's a workaround to ditch xn and replace it with re and / or 
boot HVM under FreeBSD 10?

-Karl


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