Re: what builds and what doesn't - worse than I expected

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

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 08:22:07AM -0400, Toby Karyadi wrote:
> On 2014-05-14 04:25, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 07:17:59PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> >>On May 13,  3:58pm, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >>}
> >>} The HOWTO is out of date, and I wanted to make sure the right thing
> >>was
> >>} recommended.   My take is that the right recommendation now is
> >>}
> >>}    xen: 4.1
> >>}    dom0: NetBSD 6 stable, amd64
> >>}
> >>} except that maybe it should be 4.2.   I looked at package building
> >>
> >>     Unless there is a very good reason to specify otherwise, I
> >>would go with 4.2.  There were a number of positive reports about
> >>it after I imported it.
> >
> >I'm still using features from the xm toolstack which are not in xl in 4.2
> >...
> 
> I use xentools42, and both xm and xend are still available. I haven't tried
> whether it actually works ;-). The only difference is probably having to set
> xencommons=yes in addition to setting xend=yes in rc.conf. The xendomains
> rc.d script needs to be adjusted though, because by default it uses xl.
> 
> For me xentools42 and the xl toolstack work out of the box, even with vnd
> based disks. So, +1 to move on to 4.2. I use netbsd 6.1.4.

Does
xl shutdown -H -a -w
works ? If not that's still a showstopper for me.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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