FreeBSD i386 domU: trust me, just use HVM

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:21:57PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> I guess what I need to try at this point is to get a PV Xen kernel to work
> with the filesystem I just installed onto using HVM.

And that's not going to work either, because I need 1024MB of RAM, but
the FreeBSD i386 PV kernel doesn't work if you have more than about
600MB:

# xm create -c accum-pv
Using config file "./accum-pv".
Started domain accum
                    WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!
GDB: no debug ports present
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
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FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 31 18:26:42 UTC 2011
    root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/XEN i386
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
panic: pmap_init: page table page is out of range

I give up.  Back to full HVM it is.

Thor