Re: [Xen-users] FreeBSD as DomU (again, I know - sorry!)

[Dylan Martin <dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got OpenBSD running as an HVM guest (totally different than what you
are doing).  If that sounds interesting to you, my badly written notes
are at:

http://www.seattlecentral.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/dmartin/moin.cgi/Xen#head-a53ebf22c9f622a01bd50c89e977a5589ab31b88

or 

http://tinyurl.com/3dsg9l

-Dylan

> I know this has been flying around, but I haven't been able to find a  
> definitive answer or HOWTO that I can make work.
> 
> I followed this HOWTO at http://txrx.org/xen/ and wound up with the  
> following:
> 
> # test.install domain config file
> kernel = "/etc/xen/vm/dev1/freebsd-INSTALL_XENU"
> memory = 32
> name = "test"
> #cpu = -1   # leave to Xen to pick
> #nics = 1
> vif = [ '' ]
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/ld0i,wd0d,rw' ]
> extra = "vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a"
> 
> [root@dev dev]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ld0i bs=1024k count=250
> 250+0 records in
> 250+0 records out
> 
> So I then tried to create my domain, but it failed.
> 
> [root@dev dev1]# xm create test.install
> Using config file "./test.install".
> Error: Building domain failed: ostype=linux dom=11 err=
> [root@dev dev1]#
> 
> I have even tried to use Kip's http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/ 
> download/config/xmexample1.bsd, http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/ 
> 7.0/download/kernel-current and http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/ 
> 7.0/download/mdroot-7.0.bz2, obviously first changing the  
> xmexample1.bsd and unextracting the mdroot so my end result looks  
> like this:
> 
> # install-config domain config file
> kernel = "/etc/xen/vm/dev1.test1/kernel-current"
> memory = 64
> name = "dev1"
> vif = [ '' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/etc/xen/vm/dev1.test1/mdroot-7.0,hda1,w' ]
> on_crash    = 'preserve'
> extra = "boot_verbose"
> extra += ",boot_single"
> extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd769a"
> extra += ",kern.hz=100"
> 
> [root@dev dev1.test1]# ls -al /etc/xen/vm/dev1.test1/
> total 527632
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      4096 Aug 15 13:39 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 Aug 15 13:22 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      5299 Aug 15 13:39 install-config
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   2874150 Jan 12  2006 kernel-current
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 536870912 Jan 12  2006 mdroot-7.0
> [root@dev dev1.test1]#
> 
> Upon running xm create:
> 
> [root@dev dev1.test1]# xm create install-config
> Using config file "./install-config".
> Error: Building domain failed: ostype=linux dom=12 err=
> [root@dev dev1.test1]#
> 
> Very lost at this point.  Google has no useful info on the Building  
> domain failed error for my case.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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