Re: NetBSD DomU in Xen 4 challenges

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

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:42:22PM -0400, metalliqaz%fastmail.fm@localhost 
wrote:
> On Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:58 PM, "Manuel Bouyer"
> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > No, in should be understood why a recent netbsd-5 kernel didn't work
> > (and it's probably not a xen4 issue, it's a dom0 issue).
> 
> I assume you are referring to this as to why netbsd-5 didn't work:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2011/03/19/msg021929.html

No, you said you'd need a HEAD kernel to get it working; I assumed
you tried a netbsd-5 kernel and it didn't work.
If you didn't try it, saying that a HEAD kernel would be misleading.

> 
> As a relatively n00bish Xen user, this wasn't obvious to me.  Also I
> don't understand why it would be a dom0 issue when the fix is to get a
> newer domU kernel.

What I meant is that NetBSD 5.1 didn't work with this dom0, and that's not
related to Xen4. The same dom0 kernel with a 3.3 hypervisor and
a NetBSD 5.1 domU would certainly give the same result.
So saying that NetBSD 5.1 doesn't work with Xen4 is also not true
(I have NetBSD 5.1 DomUs running with a Xen 4.1 hypervisor and a
NetBSD-5 dom0).


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