Re: upgrading from netbsd 4/xen 3.1 on i386 to HEAD on amd64

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Monday 03 March 2008 22:36:42 Chris Brookes wrote:
> I'm currently running NetBSD 4/Xen 3.1 on a 1.0Ghz i386 box for DOM0.
> I have a few NetBSD 4 DOMU's  and a single Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) DOMU.
> I've got an Athlon X2 BE-2350 and a GIGABYTE GA-MA69VM-S2 mobo on the
> way which I'm hoping to run the NetBSD HEAD/current amd64 port on for
> Dom-0. Will I be able to boot and run my existing PV 32bit DOMU NetBSD
> and Linux installations while running under the amd64 DOM0?  If so
> what kernels do I use, my existing ones? This will greatly aide my
> upgrade path to 64 bits for the DOMUs...

Basically yes. Just exchange your 32bit kernels with 32bit PAE kernels and 
that's it. No changes in the userland are needed.

> How mature is HVM support with NetBSD and xen? Am I likely to run in
> to much trouble getting an XP or MS Server 2003 instance running?

It should work.

Christoph