Subject: Re: dom0 problems
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/07/2007 04:46:11
Do you forseen a support for good features like save and restore
or migration in hte few next month ?
I would like to use NetBSD/Xen instead of RedHat/Xen
anyway thanks and compliments for the great work on NetBSD/Xen
NetBSD is the only one BSD right now to support DOM0 feature
Rick
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:34:53AM -0600, RJ45 wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>
>>> not really. It supports running Xen on SMP hosts, and xen can schedule
>>> different domains on different CPUs (or run SMP guests if the guest
>>> supports it - e.g. linux). But NetBSD as dom0 won't use more than one CPU
>>> at this time.
>>>
>> Well this is good, this is what I need.
>> May I run a NetBSD 4/Xen kernel upon a NetBSD 3 Release install
>> binaries ?
>> I Started from a NetBSD 3 Release base install.
>> is it correct ?
>
> It should work but a few things may not work properly (especially things
> that get statistics from the kernel like vmstat, netstat, etc ...).
> I would recommend upgrading the userland to netbsd-4 too.
>
>>
>> save and restore and migration on a paravirtualized environment
>> is supported on NetBSD/Xen ?
>
> Not yet.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>