Re: xen 3.2x support

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

On Wednesday 03 September 2008 11:49:47 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:43:08AM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 September 2008 11:25:07 Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> > > Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:21:44PM -0700, Michael Litchard wrote:
> > > >> I'm curious on the status for supporting xen 3.2.x. It seems I can't
> > > >> run Freebsd in an HVM instance unless I'm using 3.2.x or higher.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to Christoph we have Xen 3.3 support in pkgsrc now, and
> > > > a -current XEN3_DOM0 kernel runs on top of it.
> > >
> > > Booting the latest Xen 3.3 it says:
> > > Mismatch between XEN and DOM0 kernel
> >
> > If you use a 32bit hypervisor, your dom0 kernel must be a 32bit pae
> > kernel.
>
> You mean the xenkernel33 builds a 32bitPAE Xen kernel ?

Yes. non-PAE support has been dropped in Xen 3.3. There was a discussion
about this in the "Xen 3.3 News" thread.

> That's a problem, because NetBSd doesn't have a 32bitPAE dom0 kernel ...

Oh, I didn't notice, PAE is domU only.

In that case there are three ways:
a) use amd64 as dom0
b) get dom0 PAE support
c) downgrade to Xen 3.1.

Christoph