Re: NetBSD on Linode problems

[Michael Parson <mparson%bl.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 06:29:28PM -0700, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> > Linode explicitly doesn't reveal what Dom0 versions they're running,
> > for "security reasons".
>
> booting a recent (netbsd-6) NetBSD kernel should give you the hypervisor
> version in dmesg. This is a start ...

Well, I tried NetBSD-6 and networking worked, so, that's installing now.

Thanks for the suggestion.

dmesg from the INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU kernel:

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 6.0 (INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU)
total memory = 1024 MB
avail memory = 978 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root)
hypervisor0 at mainbus0: Xen version 4.1.3-rc3-pre
VIRQ_DEBUG interrupt using event channel 3
vcpu0 at hypervisor0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz, id 
0x106a5
vcpu1 at hypervisor0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz, id 
0x106a5
vcpu2 at hypervisor0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz, id 
0x106a5
vcpu3 at hypervisor0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz, id 
0x106a5
xenbus0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Bus Interface
xencons0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Console Driver
xencons0: console major 143, unit 0
xencons0: using event channel 2
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "xen_system_time" frequency 1000000000 Hz quality 10000
Xen clock: using event channel 5
Xen clock: using event channel 7
Xen clock: using event channel 9
Xen clock: using event channel 11
xenbus0: using event channel 1
xbd0 at xenbus0 id 51712: Xen Virtual Block Device Interface
xbd0: using event channel 12
xbd1 at xenbus0 id 51728: Xen Virtual Block Device Interface
xbd1: using event channel 13
xennet0 at xenbus0 id 0: Xen Virtual Network Interface
xennet0: MAC address f2:3c:91:ae:c9:5d
xennet0: using event channel 14
balloon0 at xenbus0 id 0: Xen Balloon driver
balloon0: current reservation: 1048576 KiB
xennet0: using RX copy mode
balloon0: current reservation: 262144 pages => target: 262144 pages
xbd0: 16384 KB, 512 bytes/sect x 32768 sectors
xbd1: 40944 MB, 512 bytes/sect x 83853312 sectors
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
boot device: xbd0
md0: internal 5000 KB image area
root on md0a dumps on md0b
Your machine does not initialize mem_clusters; sparse_dumps disabled
root file system type: ffs
WARNING: clock gained 5 days
warning: no /dev/console

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Michael Parson
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