Download the FreeBSD domU kernel for Xen 3.0 and disk image from https://www.fsmware.com/
Put the configuration file xmexample1.bsd into /etc/xen/ and modify the related entries about where the kernel and
the disk image are stored. It should look like the following:
kernel = "/opt/kernel-current"
memory = 256
name = "freebsd"
vif = [ '' ]
disk = [ 'file:/opt/mdroot-7.0,hda1,w' ]
#on_crash = 'preserve'
extra = "boot_verbose"
extra += ",boot_single"
extra += ",kern.hz=100"
extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd769a"
The mdroot-7.0.bz2 file should be uncompressed.
Next, the __xen_guest section in kernel-current needs to be
altered to add the VIRT_BASE that Xen 3.0.3 requires:
# objcopy kernel-current -R __xen_guest
# perl -e 'print "LOADER=generic,GUEST_OS=freebsd,GUEST_VER=7.0,XEN_VER=xen-3.0,BSD_SYMTAB,VIRT_BASE=0xC0000000\x00"' > tmp
# objcopy kernel-current --add-section __xen_guest=tmp
# objdump -j __xen_guest -s kernel-current
kernel-current: file format elf32-i386
Contents of section __xen_guest:
0000 4c4f4144 45523d67 656e6572 69632c47 LOADER=generic,G
0010 55455354 5f4f533d 66726565 6273642c UEST_OS=freebsd,
0020 47554553 545f5645 523d372e 302c5845 GUEST_VER=7.0,XE
0030 4e5f5645 523d7865 6e2d332e 302c4253 N_VER=xen-3.0,BS
0040 445f5359 4d544142 2c564952 545f4241 D_SYMTAB,VIRT_BA
0050 53453d30 78433030 30303030 3000 SE=0xC0000000.
We are, now, ready to create and launch our domU:
# xm create /etc/xen/xmexample1.bsd -c
Using config file "/etc/xen/xmexample1.bsd".
Started domain freebsd
WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #113: Wed Jan 4 06:25:43 UTC 2006
[email protected]:/usr/home/kmacy/p4/freebsd7_xen3/src/sys/i386-xen/compile/XENCONF
WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance.
Xen reported: 1796.927 MHz processor.
Timecounter "ixen" frequency 1796927000 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz (1796.93-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,
DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>>
real memory = 265244672 (252 MB)
avail memory = 255963136 (244 MB)
xc0: <Xen Console> on motherboard
cpu0 on motherboard
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
[XEN] Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:6b:de:3a
[XEN]
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd769a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Loading configuration files.
No suitable dump device was found.
Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart.
Starting file system checks:
/dev/xbd769a: 18859 files, 140370 used, 113473 free (10769 frags, 12838 blocks, 4.2% fragmentation)
Setting hostname: demo.freebsd.org.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
Additional routing options:.
Mounting NFS file systems:.
Starting syslogd.
/etc/rc: WARNING: Dump device does not exist. Savecore not run.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib
a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout /usr/X11R6/lib/aout
Starting usbd.
usb: Kernel module not available: No such file or directory
Starting local daemons:.
Updating motd.
Starting sshd.
Initial i386 initialization:.
Additional ABI support: linux.
Starting cron.
Local package initialization:.
Additional TCP options:.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
Sun Apr 1 02:11:43 UTC 2007
FreeBSD/i386 (demo.freebsd.org) (xc0)
login:
The domU should run the FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT kernel:
# uname -a
FreeBSD demo.freebsd.org 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #113: Wed Jan 4 06:25:43 UTC 2006
[email protected]:/usr/home/kmacy/p4/freebsd7_xen3/src/sys/i386-xen/compile/XENCONF i386
The network can now be configured on the domU. The FreeBSD domU will use a specific
interface called xn0:
# ifconfig xn0 10.10.10.200 netmask 255.0.0.0
# ifconfig
xn0: flags=843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
inet 10.10.10.200 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
ether 00:16:3e:6b:de:3a
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
On dom0 Slackware, some Xen
dependant network interfaces should show up:
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:E9:A0:02:C2
inet addr:10.10.10.130 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:204857 (200.0 KiB) TX bytes:129915 (126.8 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9744 (9.5 KiB) TX bytes:9744 (9.5 KiB)
peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1853349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:952923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2432115831 (2.2 GiB) TX bytes:86528526 (82.5 MiB)
Base address:0xc000 Memory:ef020000-ef040000
vif0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:129915 (126.8 KiB) TX bytes:204857 (200.0 KiB)
vif1.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:157 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:140 (140.0 b) TX bytes:158 (158.0 b)
xenbr1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:112 (112.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
xenbr1 8000.feffffffffff no vif0.1
peth0
vif1.0