Re: Xen3 domain0 support is there !

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:34:50AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 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.

Nice, thanks for this !

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