Re: Running XEN under a Linux AMD64 DOM0

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

On Monday 31 March 2008 08:54:46 David Laight wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:30:25PM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote:
> > BTW, is there some sane-ish way to get i386 stuff to compile from pkgsrc
> > on amd64 boxes?   It's essentially the same O/S, some mk.conf switch to
> > say 'if i386, but this is amd64, cross-compile'?
>
> Install netbsd i386 into a separate filesystem, mount it as /emul/netbsd32
> in the amd64 kernel, and chroot into it.
> That stands a reasonable chance ...

This is no solution for the long run. The xentools3-hvm package builds the
firmware which is required to run HVM guests. This firmware must be a 32bit
binary. Since there are no library dependencies, the workaround in pkgsrc
is simple: The package itself provides two headers from i386.

Christoph