Re: Re: NetBSD version in Xenolinux ?

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

On Wed, Dec 08 2004 - 08:06, Christian Limpach wrote:
> > Due to the way Xen works, you need NetBSD/xen in all Domains.
> 
> This is not true, you can mix NetBSD and Linux domains on the same machine.
> You can run NetBSD as domain0 on Xen 1.2, which is the Xen version the
> NetBSD/xen port in the NetBSD cvs repository (-current as well as -2.0)
> works with.  On Xen 2.0, for which there's a NetBSD/xen port in the Xen
> bitkeeper repository, you can only run NetBSD in unprivileged domains.

I did install the NetBSD/xen (available from xen ftp site) on a
xenolinux 2.0. I didn't try to install a "standard" NetBSD/i386 (let say
from some ftp mirror .../NetBSD-daily/..).
nice thing about this try, debian/linux is domain0 so I did create a
diskimage (with dd) and format it with mkfs.ext2 (as no mkfs.ffs
exists), then mount the image file, untar all netbsd/xen sets and guess
what... netbsd boots on a native ext2fs :p it may not be such a big
surprise but I was really please of that :))

Anyway, my initial question was about version "allowed" in unprivileged domains.
I haven't tried yet to run a "standard" netbsd/i386 as domain1 in
xenolinux-2.0 and was wondering if ever it made sense to try :)

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 :)

> There's only support for running Linux as domain0 on Xen 2.0.
> 
>      christian
> 

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