From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <royger@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.org, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org,
Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7: no blkback
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:07:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160609090714.GA24655@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160609080343.44rvpda4hskiy3ge@mac>
On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:03:43AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:16:59AM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >
> > > One of the more relevant changes in 4.7 regarding FreeBSD is the support for
> > > block hotplug scripts. This means that we now have the option to use
> > > backends different than simple block or regular files, provided that someone
> > > writes the proper hotplug scripts to attach them (I've heard there are some
> > > iSCSI hotplug scripts around). This however requires changes in blkback, so
> > > if you plan to use the Xen 4.7 port, please make sure that you are running a
> > > kernel that contains revision r301269 (or any later version). The same also
> >
> > I am running it with r301685 and the HVM guests have some trouble with
> > block devices.
> >
> > SeaBIOS does not find /dev/zvol/zroot/freebsd1,raw,xvda,w to boot FreeBSD
> > from, after chaging to "hda" I get up to the kernel mountroot prompt
> > (Xen block devices seem to be detected in dmesg).
>
> Yes, this is intentional, see:
>
> https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=144482080812353
>
Note that I reverted that change yesterday. 4.7 will behave as before.
Wei.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20160603120921.y5l362zgrhf4fdcb@mac>
2016-06-08 22:18 ` HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes Marcin Cieslak
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.11.1606082204080.2130@z.fncre.vasb>
2016-06-08 22:35 ` HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes - domU respawning on_crash Marcin Cieslak
2016-06-09 7:40 ` HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes Roger Pau Monné
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.11.1606082229190.2130@z.fncre.vasb>
2016-06-09 7:44 ` HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes - domU respawning on_crash Roger Pau Monné
[not found] ` <20160609074021.uqtjio2vn7wo5h4m@mac>
2016-06-10 21:41 ` HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes Marcin Cieslak
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.11.1606102140290.2130@z.fncre.vasb>
2016-06-13 9:22 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-06-09 0:16 ` HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7: no blkback Marcin Cieslak
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.11.1606090010280.2130@z.fncre.vasb>
2016-06-09 8:03 ` Roger Pau Monné
[not found] ` <20160609080343.44rvpda4hskiy3ge@mac>
2016-06-09 9:07 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-06-10 21:38 ` Marcin Cieslak
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.11.1606102124330.2130@z.fncre.vasb>
2016-06-13 9:10 ` Roger Pau Monné
[not found] ` <20160613091003.cejnbuqepp25zanc@mac>
2016-06-13 9:44 ` Marcin Cieslak
2016-06-13 19:26 ` Marcin Cieslak
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.11.1606131922240.2130@z.fncre.vasb>
2016-06-16 15:29 ` Roger Pau Monné
[not found] ` <20160616152919.3nelncwerh3nir27@mac>
2016-06-16 17:05 ` Marcin Cieslak
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