Re: X11 dom0 on xen?

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

Izaac thanks for the pointer.

Turns out that, yes, 4gb was being too generous  Dialing it back to
2gb seems to have worked.
Weird.

Andrew


On 20 November 2014 18:46, Izaac <izaac%setec.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:49:41PM +0000, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> Looking in the archives I see there were some problems with netbsd
>> current as dom0 on xen.  I'm wondering if there was any success in
>> figuring this out  - I suspect I might have the same problem on my
>> laptop:
>>
>> - during boot console isn't switched to 720p text mode
>> - X11 starts but all I see is the laptop's POST screen
>
> So I've been running Xen on the desktop for a while.  It's been stable
> on my Thinkpad, but likes to "randomly" seize up on my Dell at work.
> Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of throwing myself at the
> debugger and just reboot.  Often back into straight NetBSD.
>
> Anyway.  Try reducing your dom0 memory size to 2GB or fewer.  X11 is
> terribly upset if you don't do that:
>
>  menu=Boot Xen:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0 bootdev=wd0a console=pc;multiboot /usr/pkg/xen42-kernel/xen.gz dom0_mem=2000M,max:2000M
>
> Horray for signed 32-bit integers.
>
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