Re: Re: Re: NetBSD version in Xenolinux ?

[Joel CARNAT <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 08 2004 - 18:25, Michael Kukat wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> 
> It's not a big surprise about Linux not having clue about ffs, but NetBSD
> having clue (and i heard even the better implementation) of ext2 :)
> 

 I won't start the "pinguins are food" debate here :p
 Anyway, I don't really know about "goodness" of NetBSD/ext2
 implementation. What I saw from experience is that ext3 formatted
 partition are (or where when I test a year ago) _really_ slower than
 seen on the linux OS.
 maybe because the ext3 was treated as ext2 by netbsd...

> But nice to hear, and also a good hint, as i for now didn't find a working way
> to get NetBSD running in any Xen domain, as there is no console output and the

 I suppose the nicest way is running a NFS server on dom0 and booting
 netbsd/domain1 from network. I know how to do that with a Sun, but how
 to "boot from network" in xen ? something in the conf file I guess ?

> domain stops working quite fast. I never found this xen12loader anywhere in

 wouldn't it be in that NetBSD/xen release (the one from xen FTP site) ?

> binary form. But maybe i find the time this weekend to check out everything a
> bit further, as my boss wants to know the results of my Xen eval :)
> 
> > Another bit of my question was, as xen12load never compiled on 
> > NetBSD_2_0_RC5/i386
> > when I wanted to try netbsd/xen as domain0, I saw netbsd-GENERIC and 
> > netBSD-xen
> > where available in xen FTP site. Is this distrib "good" for booting and 
> > installing
> > directly a NetBSD/domain0 ? of course I could try but if anyone says no,
> > this saves some time :)
> 
> I would try, it it's for Xen 1.2. Trying doesn't really cost, as you can start
> with an NFS root for dom1. I'll try to compile all this stuff as soon as i 
> have

 I'll try to find some time this evening to scrach my testing laptop and
 install the NetBSD/xen distrib, to see if it ever boots.

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