Subject: Re: Netbsd XEN nothing I can boot in
To: Luke Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com>
From: ober <ober@linbsd.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 09/12/2006 22:34:45
I had xen2 working on a SMP kernel for dom0 but UP for domU and it worked
well enough. Netbsd on both. Not sure domU can be MP from what I read.
-Ober
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Luke Crawford wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Luke Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com>
> To: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
> Cc: i.vari@niwa.co.nz, port-xen@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Netbsd XEN nothing I can boot in
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Andreas Wrede wrote:
>> Try booting xen with 'nosmp' (and maybe 'noapic') on the 'kernel
>> (hd0,a)/xen.gz...' line in grub's menu.lst. Right now NetBSD does not
>> support multiple CPUs to well.
>
> now, I'm running a Debian dom0 and a NetBSD3.1-rc2 domU. Of course, the xen
> and the hardware is dual cpu; I put nosmp in the root= line on the domU
> config file. It seems to work, a nosmp NetBSD domu with a SMP debian dom0.
> I'd be interested in the details of how the smp/nosmp nature of the xen
> kernel and the dom0 effect the domU, if anyone has information or links.
>