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

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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 ...

Yay!  It worked!  THANKS :-))

I never thought the fix would be _this_ simple.. :-)

  -jm