Re: Converting PV to HVM - boot methods

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

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 03:06:53PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> I've set this to port-i386 rather than port-xen as it's more about the x86
> boot process rather than Xen.
> 
> I have a (large) number of PV Xen VMs. These were created from a disk image
> built with makefs that the sets were extracted into. This means there is no
> partitioning except for disklabel and the root partition begins at sector 0:
> 
> [...]
> This all works fine, but I'm interested in others' alternatives suggestions.

If you're running netbsd-10 you should be able to boot PVH the same way you
boot PV; just replace the XEN3_DOMU kernel with GENERIC

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