Re: Converting PV to HVM - boot methods

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

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 05:25:14PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 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.

That PV-on-PVH doesn't work doesn't imply that PVH isn't working ...

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