Subject: Re: dom0 problems
To: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/07/2007 12:38:37
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:34:53AM -0600, RJ45 wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> >not really. It supports running Xen on SMP hosts, and xen can schedule
> >different domains on different CPUs (or run SMP guests if the guest
> >supports it - e.g. linux). But NetBSD as dom0 won't use more than one CPU
> >at this time.
> >
> Well this is good, this is what I need.
> May I run a NetBSD 4/Xen  kernel upon a NetBSD 3 Release install 
> binaries ?
> I Started from a NetBSD 3 Release base install.
> is it correct ?

It should work but a few things may not work properly (especially things
that get statistics from the kernel like vmstat, netstat, etc ...).
I would recommend upgrading the userland to netbsd-4 too.

> 
> save and restore and migration on a paravirtualized environment
> is supported on NetBSD/Xen ?

Not yet.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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