I'm about to set up a new laptop with NetBSD, and I'd really like to
be able to run Xen on it, in order to experiment with a couple of
Linux distributions without resorting to rebooting back and forth
between operating systems.  What I don't fully understand, is what
limitations NetBSD/xen will have.

As far as I can tell from what I read here, and on the Xen pages, I
should be able to install NetBSD/i386 2.0, and then add Xen 1.2 to
that, using the existing NetBSD installation (with a new kernel) in
domain 0.  What I don't understand is whether I'll still be able to
use the various hardware in the laptop: will NetBSD/xen in domain 0
support all the same devices that NetBSD/i386 does?  Can I expect to
run X?  Use the Atheros wireless device?  Power management?  &c?

I guess I'm asking whether I can expect that moving from NetBSD/i386
to NetBSD/xen will be invisible except for the ability to run
additional OSes...

-tih
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