Subject: Re: Basic questions
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Ernesto Bascon <ebasconp@gmail.com>
List: port-xen
Date: 03/21/2007 15:31:06
On 21/03/07, Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:10:07PM -0400, Ernesto Bascon wrote:
> > 1. NetBSD 4 beta supports Xen 3 as dom0 on AMD64 architectures natively?
>
> No, NetBSD's Xen support is i386-only at the moment.
What a pity! :(
> > 2. Am I able to run unmodified OSes?
>
> Yes, that works fine.
>
Nice!
> > (e.g. Windows) on NetBSD 4 beta as domU on AMD64s that supports
> > hardware virtualization?
>
> Does any stable version of Xen already support that? The initial
> release only support Intel's VT instruction set.
As far as I know, Xen 3.0.3 supports hardware virtualization on AMD
Pacifica processors; but I do not know if it is stable enough.
Regards,
Ernestro