Re: NetBSD-10 PVH under xen 4.16.0 working fine, but no bootloader

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

"Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost> writes:

> some home networking updates are forcing me to do some housekeeping, and
> I wanted to anecdotally note that NetBSD-10 amd64 GENERIC PVH seems to
> be working fine for me.
>
> I can't figure out the right incancation for a grub2-pvh to load a
> kernel off the VM block storage, (where to get grub2-pvh?) and ye olde
> pygrub (which works for PV instances with ffsv1) doesn't seem to work
> for PVH, so I'm loading the kernel directly with kernel=.
>
> anybody else using PVH?

I have been using PVH guests for quite a while and with somewhat recent
fixes both 32 bit and 64 bit PVH guests work well as long as you have
CPU support.  If you have a very old CPU without some of the more
advanced support, PVH guests may perform poorly.  I never use any sort
of bootloader with PV or PVH guests.





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