Archive/FreeBSD 64-bit HVM on XCP

Instructions

In order to be able to run Freebsd 9.0-RELEASE or newer on XCP you should have a XENHVM kernel and the Xentools installed from the FreeBSD xentools port (/usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools).

So, for summarizing :

• Build and install HVM kernel.
• Build and install Xentools from ports (/usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools).
• Build and install Bash shell from ports (/usr/ports/shells/bash).
• untar and place the proper location (as could be deduced) in the tar output the FreeBSD contributed XenserverTools.

So :

x freebsd-xenservertools/
x freebsd-xenservertools/etc/
x freebsd-xenservertools/procfalse/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/escribe-ip-if.sh
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/escribe-meminfo.sh
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/xe-daemon
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/etc/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/etc/rc.d/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/etc/rc.d/xe-daemon.sh
x freebsd-xenservertools/etc/freebsd-version

• Create /procfalse
• do a ‘uname -r > /etc/freebsd-version’ from you’re shell as root.
• after that, just place files in proper places as seen before.

Finally... after booting the machine (or doing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xe-daemon.sh start), you would be able to enjoy of the Xen Cloud virtualization possibilities and so, you could see on right clicking on the machine in XenCenter :

that you’re able for example to suspend or migrate de FreeBSD VM.

Available downloads :

• XenServerTools FreeBSD for XCP 1.1.0 MD5:e9638a4d4693d5c411ddcb3e6bd75982
• XenServerTools FreeBSD for XCP 1.5.0 MD5:842d9d43f17b674be86c2f96ce9f79d6
• XenServerTools FreeBSD for XCP 1.6.0 MD5:8f6fb9765de4cfd2e524255d8d4dbfd0

This code is opened under OpenBSD license. I will very happy of answering any kind of doubts of this scripts (data contact below).

Thanks To

I wanted to say I’m very thankful to my company SareNET who has allowed me to examine how could I run FreeBSD in XCP and very thankful too to Dave Scott from Citrix because of the initial ideas for getting this working.

About the author

Egoitz Aurrekoetxea

System's administrator-programmer

Email : egoitz@sarenet.es