Issue getting my first Xen domU up

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:17:55AM +0000, Eric Bautsch wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get a Xen domU up and running.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 12.0. System is a new install.
> 
> 
> I'm following the instructions here:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-xen.html
> 
> 
> My config file looks thus:
> 
> builder = "hvm"
> name = "titania"
> memory = 8192
> vcpus = 2
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3E:11:11:21,bridge=bridge0' ]
> disk = [ '/dev/zvol/zroot/titania0,raw,hda,rw' ]
> vnc = 1
> vnclisten = "0.0.0.0"
> serial = "pty"

That seems like a valid configuration.

> Upon trying to create the domU, I think it's trying to tell me that it's got
> issues with the storage, but that may be a red herring as the qemu command
> seems to include the storage. Nevertheless, I have also tried with sda and
> messed around with qcow2 (that one didn't work, but probably due to my wrong
> incantation). Anyway here's the output from the above config file.

It's indeed QEMU failing the start the problem here. Do you have the
if_tap module loaded (`kldload if_tap`)?

Can you provide the QEMU log, it should be in
/var/log/xen/qemu-dm-titania.log.

Thanks, Roger.