Heya guys,
look, what I found out and any help would be appreciated! Don't just tell me your machine is too old, it should do both kernels and it looks like.... hmmm.... heaven if XEN and afterwards -CURRENT boots correctly:
I'm drawing the whole stuff in here, because at the mailing list freebsd-xen@freebsd.org nobody answers. buhuhu.... :-(
Op Donnerstag, 14. Jänner 2021 09:21:09 CET schreef u:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:11:40AM +0100, lizbethmutterhunt@gmail.com wrote:
to make a long story short: either I get a lock (hard to avoid, not to be
unlimited with ulimit -l unlimited) or a boot of xen and a blank screen
with reboot after a 10 seconds with vga=current.
Hello,
Hello Roger,
Sorry for the delay on the reply. I'm afraid I will need more info in
order to help diagnose your issue.
no matter, was occupied other ways; using VirtualBox at the moment, slow and
the hypervisor tends to make long waiting-times...
How do you get the lock that you mention? Is it booting Xen, or just
plain FreeBSD?
It's booting XEN, but not the CURRENT-kernel afterwards or it boots the
CURRENT but not xen. I have in /boot/loader.conf
xen_kernel="/boot/xen"
xen_cmdline="dom0_mem=4048M dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0=pvh com1=115200,8n1
guest_loglvl=all loglvl=all"
iommu="force,no-intremap"
if_tap_load="YES"
console=vga,com1
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole,vidconsole"
vmm_load="YES"
vga=current
and in /etc/rc.conf:
xencommons_enable="YES"
cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
ifconfig_bridge0="addm bge0 SYNCDHCP"
ifconfig_bge0="up"
sudo ulimit -l
unlimited
sudo uname -a
FreeBSD freeBSD-CURRENT 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #5 r368997: Tue Jan
12 13:46:33 CET 2021 lizbeth@freeBSD-CURRENT:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/
sys/LIZBETH amd64
it's a no-debug kernel!
/etc/ttys
xc0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure
when booting without XEN I get the following with 'xl dmesg'
xencall: error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface /dev/
xen/privcmd: No such file or directory
libxl: error: libxl.c:102:libxl_ctx_alloc: cannot open libxc handle: No such
file or directory
cannot init xl context
a normal boot without xen is on pastebin (VERBOSE_SYSINIT=2)
[(https://pastebin.com/RN1SYXdW)]
Do you have a serial console attached to the box so that we could
see the log of Xen and FreeBSD booting?
how to? every time I boot into xen I have to zpool import -f and mount it from a
rescue CD. Is there a log from the last boot somewhere?
I duckduckgo'd a bit but couldn't find anything else than the dmesg command. As it is not a kernel crash
there's nothing in /var/crash and on /var/run I have just the running boot inside. ### Maybe you tell me how to show the log from the serial console!
btw, I tried both ways, only serial, only bios or both --- no matter, xen's booting, screen's blanking for the "normal" kernel but nothing happens but a sudden reboot. Is it on the /var/* somewhere when booting from rescue and have a look at the "cold" system?
btw, the current images from beginning 2021 don't boot, turning root sign but blank screen, nn BTX-loader her but steady access to USB-stick. The one from end of 2020 do!
I thought that the XEN-log should be somewhere in the boot-directory but it's empty but asking for IUMMO support when using both consoles, when serializing xen boots successfully but rebooting suddenly afterwards.
I have to tell you thank you.
Lizbeth