Subject: Re: upgraded to 3.0.3, with hvm support
To: None <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/06/2006 16:52:14
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just updated the xenkernel and xentools to 3.0.3. To run this you'll
> need a very recent current. I have patches for the netbsd-3 branch 
> (to run NetBSD 3.x guests on Xen 3.0.3) but they won't make it for 3.1 I fear.

   Wonderful!
   As I understand it, a domU with the 3.0.3 ABI is not going to run on a dom0
that uses the 3.0.2 ABI (such as an older FC5 install as the dom0).

   Is this correct?  Or is this ABI change just relating to the dom0 vs xend?

> But of course, as the system uses emulation for the devices disk and network
> access are much slower than with a Xen guest kernel, and cause significant
> CPU load to dom0. But, you have a virtual VGA screen in an X-window :)

   I hope someone will post a screen shot. Alas, there isn't a lot in X-windows
that says "I'm running on NetBSD" vs "I'm running on Linux"...