Re: Xen 4.2 added to pkgsrc

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Jun 17,  6:27am, "Gary Duzan" wrote:
} In Message <201305262044.r4QKiNME010712%vtn1.victoria.tc.ca@localhost>,
}    jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)wrote:
} 
} =>On Oct 16,  7:37am, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
} =>} On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:00:13AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
} =>} > [...]
} =>} >      I await the new report with baited breathe.  :-)
} =>} 
} =>} I tested the xen 4.2 packages, and could start and stop a netbsd PV domU
} =>} without problems. There may be issues with the rc.d scripts, but as
} =>
} =>     If you're using xl, then you shouldn't have xenbackendd or xend
} =>running.  The rc.d scripts have been re-arranged so that xenbackendd
} =>gets started by rc.d/xend instead of rc.d/xencommons.  As far as I
} =>know, the rc.d scripts are fine.  You should only set xend=YES if you
} =>plan on using xm.
} =>
} =>} I have a special setup where 4 xen versions can coexists, I'm not in
} =>} a good position to debug this.
} =>
} =>     This sounds like a rather complex setup....
} =>
} =>} HVM guests are not working yet as qemu nor the boot loader are built
} =>} at this time. To avoid duplicate work I'll ask: is anyone working on this 
?
} =>
} =>     I updated a bunch of patches before doing the initial commit.
} =>However, it was taking a great deal of time to just get them to build
} =>and I wanted to get at least something to show, so as you noticed I
} =>commented out qemu.  I haven't gotten back to working on qemu and have
} =>only made minor fixes since the initial commit.  If you want to work on
} =>qemu, that would be great.  Prior to this, I hadn't done any
} =>significant work with the Xen codebase, so you're probably a lot more
} =>famailiar with it then I am.
} 
}    Thanks for all the efforts on this. I'm now running a NetBSD/amd64
} 6.1 DOM0 with NetBSD/amd64 current and Arch Linux x86_64 DOMUs,
} and everything seems stable.

     For each of the DOMUs, are they PV or HVM?

}-- End of excerpt from "Gary Duzan"