Subject: Re: netbsd as a non-domain0 os : init problem
To: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 02/26/2005 20:50:42
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:30:00PM +0000, Christian Limpach wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:44:20PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > In the bouyer-xen2 branch, the wd/sd identities for xbd are not supported any
> > more. They conflict with the read wd/sd drivers, and I don't see much values
> > for this in non-domain0 OSes.
> 
> I guess this functionality can be brought back at some point.  It's nice
> to be able to boot the same filesystem with a xen and with an i386 kernel.
> Not as important for domU on xen 2.0 as it used to be for dom0 on xen 1.2
> though...

Well, you've still got it for domain 0, since it uses the real wd and
sd drivers.  I always found it very tricky to get this to work for any
domain but 0 under xen 1.2 anyway, unless netbooting -- and then the
names of the disks don't matter so much.

Maybe I misunderstand?  Please correct me if so.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

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