Subject: Re: Disk performance hit with Dom0 vs native?
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/17/2005 17:21:43
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:19:13AM -0500, Johnny Lam wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:56:36PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> >
> >>However, there's xentools20-2.0.7 available as a binary package for 2.0, 
> >>so I'm confused. Perhaps some explanation should be added to the 
> >>(excellent) HOW-TO?
> >
> >
> >Ha, that's a mistake. The package's Makefile doesn't check the NetBSD
> >version, and xentools20 doens't need anything but python to
> >build, so it can be build on any NetBSD version supporting python.
> >But it won't be usefull on anything not i386, and anything < 3.0_BETA.
> >
> 
> Well, the xentools20 package installs the "xm" python script, which 
> *can* be used to remotely control a xend process on another machine, so 
> I think it's appropriate to build on NetBSD 2.0.

Ha, you're right. It should not even be limited to NetBSD/i386.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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