Re: Xen 3.3 vs NetBSD/i386

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:12:28PM +0200, Adam Hoka wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:27:34 -0400
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:01:09AM +0000, Dima Veselov wrote:
> > > Sorry if i wasn't accurate enough. NetBSD 5.0.1 comes with non-PAE
> > > DOM0 stock kernels and it won't build with "options PAE". So the
> > > premise is non-working 5.0.1/Xen 3.3 setup.
> > 
> > [When posting to the NetBSD mailing lists:
> >     1) please don't top-post, it robs other readers of context.
> 
> Funny, you just did that yesterday. :-)

Where, when?  If I did, I shouldn't have!  And please, when posting
to the NetBSD mailing lists, wrap your lines at 78 characters (I've
reformatted your message from one gigantic block with no line endings
into something readable in a character oriented mail client...)

> Sure, but thats an unsupported configuration, so no-go on production
> systems. amd64 is not always a way to go either. Can we supply a
> non-PAE Xen 3.3 or it is not supported anymore by upstream? (this
> question goes to everyone with xen-fu)

Support for non-PAE PV guests was droppd in Xen 3.3.  If a "supported"
configuration is a must, then the only way to get it will be with an
amd64 dom0.

Thor