Re: Create a virtualdisk.

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

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:24:23PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >>But I cant make this work in NetBSD, I'm using NetBSD 3.1, with xen
> >>2.0 (I'm using Xen 2.0 because I haved problems with the 3.0.3
> >>release, int hangs then i boots)..
> >
> >This is strange
> 
> I had the same, -current (47 days ago. 4.99.3?) with Xen3. The Dom0 would 
> lock solid at seemingly random points during boot (during the time when 
> rc.d scripts were running, i.e. after the kernel messages and devices were 
> probed). Booting a standard GENERIC worked fine, but as soon as I ran it 
> as a Dom0 it would wedge. As I was sitting in a co-lo at the time and 
> needed the machine running ASAP, I had to give up and put on 3.1_STABLE 
> and Xen2. I didn't have time to do any more investigation, but it's 
> probably worth a data point.

What sort of hardware is it ? Did you try enabling/disabling ACPI ?
I had this issue at one time on a SMP motherboard, before I added ACPI
support for Xen3 in NetBSD

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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