[Xen-users] Booting Xen on Mac Mini

[Alexis de BRUYN <alexis.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,

I have the same issue actually. Did you succeed to boot and run Xen with
your Mac-Mini ? If yes, how did you do and Which distro do you use ?
Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Aaron Dewell <aaron.dewell <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been running into some troubles getting the hypervisor to load on a
Mac Mini (2012).  I've tried (mostly
> out of boredom): Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 (amd64+mac).  It's
currently on the last one, which
> was also the most pain-free install on the system.
>
> However, when I install Xen (from packages), then try to boot it from
GRUB2 (which works otherwise), it
> fails.  The last message I see (apart from "loading" ones defined in
grub.cfg) is "WARNING: No console will
> be available to OS".  I wouldn't care about the console (the Mini is in a
rack, headless), but it also never
> requests a DHCP address as it does without the HV.  I assume that apart
from the console issue, nothing else
> is successful either, though if it was partially working, I'd have no
idea
due to the lack of a console.
>
> My next step was going to be to get the source, compile it and try
Xen.efi
(since an EFI executable does not
> appear to come with any of the Ubuntu packages).  Binaries are easier, so
that's what I tried first, but that
> appears to be the next step unless someone has another suggestion?
>
> Thanks!  I appreciate any and all advice,
>
> Aaron
>

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Alexis de BRUYN

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