Re: Running XEN under a Linux AMD64 DOM0

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

Luke S Crawford wrote:
> David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:
> >         What is the state of play if I wanted to run a NetBSD DOMU under
> >         (someone else's) Linux AMD64 DOM0?
> >
> >         I'm assuming I'd need to run current, but can I run an i386 or
> >         only amd64 DOMU?
>
> Your provider needs to run a fairly recent version of Xen so 32-on-64 works,
> and then you need to run --current  (32-on-64 is acually 32-PAE on 64)  
> you can run the 32-PAE images, or 64-bit DomU images - but either way, you
> need to be on --current.

That's true for PV guest. You can run NetBSD/i386 or NetBSD/amd64 as HVM 
guests. These don't need to be -current, but Xen must be very recent - 
3.2.0 at minimum - or you miss necessary bugfixes, otherwise.

Christoph