Xen 4.0 and option SMP support ?

Antonio Huete Jimenez ahuete.devel at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 03:25:40 PDT 2010


Hi Xavier,

I see that you are trying to boot a x86_64 kernel. Do you have the
same issue with i386?

Also take in account for your setups that our MAX SMP is up to 16
processors iirc.

Cheers,
Antonio Huete

2010/7/7 Xavier Beaudouin <xb at soprive.net>:
> Hi Antonio,
>
> Le 26 juin 2010 à 19:28, Antonio Huete Jimenez a écrit :
>
>> Hi Xavier,
>>
>> Thanks for the offering. Let's see whether we can find any trail of
>> the problem before actually trying to give you some work in setting up
>> the VM :)
>>
>> Did you already get the verbose boot log?
>
> Sorry for the delay... Another stuff get me busy, here is what I got from verbose boot (option 5 at boot), not really usefull I think.
>
> http://pix.toile-libre.org/?img=1278494217.png
>
> Any clues ?
>
> Thanks,
> Xavier
>
>> Cheers,
>> Antonio Huete
>>
>> 2010/6/24 Xavier Beaudouin <xb at soprive.net>:
>>> Hi Antonio,
>>>
>>> Le 24 juin 2010 à 17:21, Antonio Huete Jimenez a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hi Xavier,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for trying out DragonFlyBSD!
>>>>
>>>> Are you using 'options APIC_IO' in your SMP kernel config? I don't say
>>>> this is the problem itself but having it enabled may produce a number
>>>> of issues in certain hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Also, in case that's not the issue, can you please boot verbose and
>>>> tell us exactly the point where it hangs? If you could provide the
>>>> whole dmesg text better, that's better.
>>>
>>> I can even give you access to one VM.
>>>
>>> I try with and without APIC_IO -> same result.
>>>
>>> I have trying on AMD 6128 and also with Intel L5405 hardware no success.
>>>
>>> I will do a verbose boot RSN :)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> /Xavier
>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Antonio Huete
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2010/6/24 Xavier Beaudouin <xb at soprive.net>:
>>>>> Hello there,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am the CTO of So Privé Cloud Computing, and I am trying to make some "ready to use" images with some other OS than ... Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have successfully installed and configured dragonflybsd 2.6.2 and updated to GIT sources and make it run correctly without a pain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now since we can provide up to 31 cores to people that need it (31 real core, no time sharing between other users...), I cannot boot dragonfly with
>>>>>
>>>>> options SMP
>>>>>
>>>>> It block itself just after :
>>>>> lapic: divisor index 0, frequency 5000394Hz
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there people here having succesfull SMP under Xen 4.0.0/hvm ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerly,
>>>>> Xavier
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Xavier Beaudouin - xb at soprive.net - http://www.soprive.net/
>>>>> So Privé - Le premier acteur dédié au cloud computing en France
>>>>> GPG Fingerprints : A6B2 D563 F93B A3AF C08A  CBAC 6BC6 79EB DCC9 9867
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Antonio Huete
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Xavier Beaudouin - xb at soprive.net - http://www.soprive.net/
>>> So Privé - Le premier acteur dédié au cloud computing en France
>>> GPG Fingerprints : A6B2 D563 F93B A3AF C08A  CBAC 6BC6 79EB DCC9 9867
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Antonio Huete
>
> --
> Xavier Beaudouin - xb at soprive.net - http://www.soprive.net/
> So Privé - Le premier acteur dédié au cloud computing en France
> GPG Fingerprints : A6B2 D563 F93B A3AF C08A  CBAC 6BC6 79EB DCC9 9867
>
>



-- 
Cheers,
Antonio Huete






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