Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

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

On 04/01/11 16:16, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > If you are on NetBSD-5 then pull up  dom0 balloon support from -current
> > then the error goes away.
>
> I worked around this by using hw.physmem64 instead of the balloon sysctls
> when they are not present (this is a 4 line patch).
> I also had to patch vif scripts because 'vifname' is not present
> on netbsd-5 (not a big deal either).
> With both changes, I can start a domU with 'xm create -c' on a Xen 4.1
> installation.
>
> As blktap2 isn't useable on NetBSD yet, I disabled it in the package.
> We can revisit this later, when blktap2 support is being worked on.
>
> There is also some more plist fixes.
>
> updated package at ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/outgoing/bouyer/xentools41.tar.gz

Great thanks!

> xl create still fails as before.
> Has anybody been able to start a PV domU with xl on a NetBSD dom0 ?

I can start a HVM DomU with xl and HVM DomU. PV DomU fails for me, too.
I suggest to move the discussion about fixing PV DomU with xl to xen-devel.

Christoph