Re: Xen test results

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

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 04:21:33PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried running another round of automated tests of NetBSD/xen,
> testing all combinations of the three Xen versions present in pkgsrc
> (4.11, 4.13, and 4.15) against the most recent NetBSD release on each
> supported branch (8.2 and 9.2) and -current.  Out of the nine
> combinations, none was able to boot a dom0.
> 
> In five cases, the xentools package failed to build.  In three cases,
> the dom0 boot failed with a "heap full" error as reported in PR 56063,
> and in the remaining case (4.11/9.2), the boot silently hung.

I've no problems booting a 9.2 dom0 with 4.13 or 4.15 (4.11 is not 
updated any more). Also, with both 4.13 and 4.15 xentools do build for
me, from the latest pkgsrc tree. The difference could be that, in my
case, the NetBSD kernel is not compressed (so the boot loader doesn't
have to gunzip it).

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