I committed Ceri Storey's block-file and vif-bridge scripts into xentools20
pkg some days ago. Now it's possible to use file: in domU config files.

And the vif-bridge scripts also works perfectly on NetBSD without any
modification.

Maybe the howto should be updated?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
To: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: rc.d script for starting Xen domains


> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:13:23AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>
>> Do you have an idea on how to deal with file-backed domains ?
>> On my production systems I use vnd attached to files for guest domains,
>> and I've not found a nice scheme to deal with this yet.
> 
> I use a block-file script that's much like the one that was recently
> committed to the sysutils/xentools20 package.  With that script in
> place, you can use the following in the domain config file to
> automatically configure the vnd device to attach to the specified
> file: