Re: Converting PV to HVM - boot methods

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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

Unfortunately not, you snipped out this bit:

> Now that XenServer and XCP-ng no longer support PV booting (and
> PV-on-PVH doesn't work either) [...]

I would love to use PVH as it works brilliantly with the xl toolstck, but 
it's not an option with XenServer or XCP-ng.

--
Stephen