Re: installing a 4.1 DOMU

[Toby Karyadi <toby.karyadi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 7/18/12 2:14 AM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:34:01PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > xl is not supported on xen 4.1 on NetBSD, and is still considered as
> > an experimental toolstack even on Linux (xend/xm is the recommended
> > toolstack in 4.1), so the results using xl might vary.
> what's missing from xl?  what is the effective difference from using xm
> under a NetBSD DOM0?
I visited this issue a few months ago: 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2012/04/11/msg007216.html.

In short, if you define a PV (not HVM) domU that uses a 'file:' disk 
definition (as opposed to 'phy:'; those are the only ones supported on 
netbsd Dom0), the domU won't start because xl doesn't properly cause 
xenbackendd to setup vnconfig (via the /usr/pkg/etc/xen/scripts/block 
the script). The link above has a patch that fixes the problem.

Toby