Re: NetBSD vs Linux

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 05:42:33PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> Did you use the ramdisk (and told xen to load it) ?
> It worked for me with
> kernel = "/domains/vmlinuz.debian"
> ramdisk = "/domains/initrd.debian.gz"

On a related note, I have a FreeBSD 8 VM which I use for building some
legacy software in a chroot containing a very old version of FreeBSD.

I would like to try a PV FreeBSD kernel but I cannot figure out how to
start it from a NetBSD domU -- I literally have no idea how to tell the
Xen startup script what to do with FreeBSD's
kernel-as-directory-of-random-stuff -- the FreeBSD guys all seem to use
pygrub.  So I am using HVM.  Hopefully as the NetBSD Xen kernel gets more
modular we won't grow this problem!

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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