Freenas with Xen

This howto is based on the excellent work made by My Wired House. It aims at building FreeNAS with PVHVM support.
It aims at building Freenas 9.3 with PHVMH support and ultimately at putting it into production with PCI passthrough.

Build environment

• Install a Freebsd 9.3 (in a domU for example)
• Make a few adjustements
• Build Freenas

Freebsd 9.3 in a domU

Xml configuration for Libvirt

<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> <domain type='xen'>

 <name>freebsd</name>
 <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
 <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
 <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
 <os>
   <type arch='x86_64' machine='xenfv'>hvm</type>
   <loader type='rom'>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
   <boot dev='cdrom'/>
   <boot dev='hd'/>
 </os>
 <features>
   <acpi/>
   <apic/>
   <pae/>
   <hap/>
 </features>
 <clock offset='variable' adjustment='0' basis='utc'>
   <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
 </clock>
 <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
 <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
 <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
 <devices>
   <emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386</emulator>
   <disk type='block' device='disk'>
     <driver name='phy'/>

     <target dev='xvda' bus='xen'/>
   </disk>
   <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>

     <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
     <readonly/>
     <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
   </disk>
   <controller type='ide' index='0'/>
   <interface type='bridge'>
     <mac address='00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx'/>

     <script path='/etc/xen/scripts/vif-openvswitch'/>
     <model type='e1000'/>
   </interface>
   <serial type='pty'>
     <target port='0'/>
   </serial>
   <console type='pty'>
     <target type='serial' port='0'/>
   </console>
   <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
   <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
   <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='fr'>
     <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
   </graphics>
   <video>
     <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' heads='1'/>
   </video>
 </devices>

</domain> </syntax>