Re: HVM virtualization?

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

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 01:37:17PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> One of my hosting providers is converting VPSes from PV to HVM 
> virtualization due to security issue
> https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-286.html
> 
> They say NetBSD does not work under HVM mode and can choose a different 
> BSD (or Linux).
> 
> Can someone tell me about this? I did look briefly at 
> http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/ but don't understand the context 
> of the wiki saying it is supported but the hosting provider saying it 
> does not work.

plain HVM, with emulated devices, works without problems (and always has).
If they only support PV devices, then it works only in HEAD (GENERIC supports
it)

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