Re: Xen 3.3 wont boot

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

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 14:26:24 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18:39PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:50:35PM +0900, Kazushi Marukawa wrote:
> > > Today I tried xen 3.3, but it won't boot.
> >
> > What version of NetBSD are you using?
> >
> > > I tried both i386 DOM0 kernel and amd64 DOM0 kernel.
> >
> > Xen 3.3 requires PAE support and there is no NetBSD/i386 dom0 PAE kernel.
> > Xen 3.3 therefore can only be used with NetBSD/amd64 dom0 kernel.
>
> I think that even if the NetBSD kernel was of the wrong type or
> misbehaving, the xen kernel should print some output to console ...

that's right. The xen kernel itself should boot and past when invoking the
dom0 kernel, It should have told Kazushi that the dom0 kernel doesn't match. 

Maybe he was looking on vga output, while xen was using serial output ?

Christoph