Re: Xen3 domain0 support is there !

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:05:54AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm proud to announce that, with today's commit NetBSD has finally usable
> Xen3 domain0 support. I have a NetBSD-current domU, acting as a NFS server
> for a linux domU doing a build.sh release with sources on NFS and obj on
> local storage, all running on NetBSD-current domain0 on Xen3 !

Excellent news, Manuel, thanks for all your work on this.
 
> I added a XEN3_DOM0 kernel config file to i386, which will be build
> as part of release (the next build should have a netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz
> in pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/... on the ftp server).
> Installing a Xen3+NetBSD system is much like a Xen2+NetBSD, you just
> need to install xentools30 instead of xentools20 from pkgsrc :)
> You also need a xen 3.0.2-2 kernel, older or newer may not be compatible
> with the 3.0.2-2 tools.

To facilitate this, I've added a pkgsrc/sysutils/xenkernel30 package,
which just retrieves the Xen 3.0.2-2 kernel.

Thanks once again,
Alistair