Re: sysctl vm on 6.1_STABLE DOMU

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

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:12:00PM -0500, Gary Duzan wrote:
> In Message <52BA64E6.8020400%tastylime.net@localhost>,
>    Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>wrote:
> 
> =>On 12/23/13, 6:23 PM, Gary Duzan wrote:
> =>>
> =>>     This in only the DOMU, so doesn't run xentools. I don't own the
> =>> DOM0, so I can't do anything with that.
> =>>
> =>>                           Gary Duzan
> =>>
> =>
> =>Yeah, this is a problem with the libxc in the dom0;  it's been fixed in 
> =>recent versions, but you can't do anything about it in the domU. :(
> 
>    Interesting. I know it worked before, though, with earlier
> netbsd-6 branch versions. Did something on the NetBSD DOMU side
> change to trigger this behavior?

I don't think so, but an update of the dom0 could have brocken it.
This has been brocken in Xen by a security-related change.

>  I'm assuming the DOM0 is Linux,
> so if there is a DOM0 bug I would need more detail about it to try
> to get it addressed by the hosting folks.

This has been fixed upstream, but I'm not sure the fix is in a released
version yet.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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