Re: FreeBSD HVM+PV boot hangs with phy: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xenbusb_nop_confighook_cb

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:35:18PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:21:03AM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Just as the subject says.
> > 
> > dom0 is NetBSD 5.99.49/Xen 3.3.2 and domU is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (same
> > happens with -RELEASE).
> 
> I tried to boot a FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE on both Xen 3.3 and 4.1, the
> HVMPV kernel dies with a panic in the netfront driver (the panic
> is "do something smart"). I got 2 sightly different console output;
> one being clearly that it couldn't read the mac address (I suspect it's trying
> to read it from the wrong xenstore path), I guess the other case is that it
> can't get allocate a grant ref.

I found it: for HVMPV one has to remove 'ioemu' from the vif config.
Now I can look at the block device issue.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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