On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:57:31 +0200
"Christian Limpach" <chris%pin.lu@localhost> wrote:
> The tools are part of the Xen source package. I've already prepared a pkgsrc
> package. But there's one problem with the tools, they need some additional
> features from the kernel which I haven't comitted yet since the way I chose
> to export the features to userland requires extensions to kernfs. The Linux
> kernel exports these features through nodes in /proc. It would be possible
> to create regular devices but that would then require creating additional
> /dev entries which makes it more difficult to just give NetBSD/Xen a try if
> you have already NetBSD/i386 installed.
>
> The pkgsrc packages is here:
> http://lola.pin.lu/netbsd/xen/xentools12-040426.tgz
> A patch to add the missing kernel bits is here:
> http://lola.pin.lu/netbsd/xen/dom0-040426.patch
That's really great! :-)
> o How to build a kernel?
>
> Do the usual config/make depend/make:
> - change to sys/arch/xen/conf
> - config GENERIC
> - cd ../compile/GENERIC
> - make depend && make
>
> o How to build xen12load
>
> Run make in sys/arch/xen/stand/xen12load
>
> o How to setup grub
>
> - install grub from pkgsrc
> - create a /grub/menu.lst file like this:
>
> ============================================================
> default 0
> timeout 5
>
> root (hd0,3,a)
>
> title NetBSD
> kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd
>
> title NetBSD via chain
> rootnoverify (hd0,3)
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> title Xen / NetBSD
> kernel /grub/xen-1.2.gz dom0_mem=65536
> module /grub/xen12load
> module /grub/xen12netbsd
> ============================================================
>
> ``root (hd0,3,a)'' selects grub's root filesystem. ``(hd0,3,a)'' refers
> to the ``a'' disklabel-partition in the 4th fdisk partition on the 1st
> harddisk. The 1st entry loads NetBSD/i386 directly from grub. This
> doesn't seem to always work for me, the kernel won't find the root
> device and grub doesn't setup the symbol table correctly. The 2nd entry
> chainloads the NetBSD boot sector from the fdisk partition where NetBSD
> is installed. The 3rd entry loads NetBSD/Xen.
I'll try it now with the new iso9660 patch for grub, so I'll be able to
boot NetBSD/Xen via cdrom.
BTW thank you for all your work in the NetBSD/Xen port, you rock!
--
Juan RP <juan%xtraeme.unixbsd.org@localhost>
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