Re: netbsd/amd64 5.1rc4 domU network

[Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%wda-fr.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:29:11 +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon
<jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:02:08 +0100 (BST), Stephen Borrill
> <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>>>> Stab in the dark: lack of copy support in the network frontend?
NetBSD
>>>> currently only has flip support and when attempting to get NetBSD
>>> running
>>>> as PV guest in XenServer, Citrix said that flip support is
deprecated.
>>>> Symptoms on XenServer were that not only did the guest not have
> network
>>>> access, it also stopped all other domUs (and meant the XenServer dom0
>>> had
>>>> to be powercycled).
>>>
>>> Copy support was pulled-up by Manuel about a year ago (see PR/40650):
>>>
>>> http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-5.cgi?show=1030
>> 
>> That's backend only. I'm talking about frontend, i.e. xennet in the
domU
> 
> Oopsie, sorry; should have read your mail slower

Thanks for your inputs to you all.  Is that the issue (copy support
missing in the frontend) ?

Besides, since which versions of XEN and/or linux dom0 is flip deprecated
?  (I tryed netbsd domU on RHEL5 some day but I don't remember the result)

Thanks
//Pierre-Philipp