Re: netbsd-5 i386 PAE dom0 + hvm domU winxp?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:28:34PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:39:00AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > 
> > kernel = "/usr/pkg/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> > builder='hvm'
> > memory = 1024
> > pae = 1
> > name = "winxp"
> > vif = [ 'mac=00:0d:10:80:03:00, bridge=bridge0, type=ioemu, model=pcnet' ]
> > disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sd2e,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> 
> I've not extensively tested phy: for a long time, but I fear that
> this cause issues with netbsd-5 and HVM (both xbdback and qemu wants to
> open this device, and this is not allowed any more). I'm not sure how we
> could easily fix this.
> Any way to test a HVM guest with a file: virtual disk instead ?

Could you try with
/dev/rsd2e
instead of
/dev/sd2e ?
this did the trick for me ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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