Subject: Re: Multiprocessor support
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@gson.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 08/28/2007 17:39:17
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:23:20PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the status of multiprocessor support in NetBSD running
> as domU under Xen 3.0.3-0?
>
> - Can a XEN3_DOMU kernel take advantage of multiple virtual CPUs?
No, not yet.
>
> - Can you run a GENERIC_MP kernel fully virtualized using HVM and
> take advantage of multiple CPUs that way?
This should work. I run a windows 2003 HVM which see multiple CPUs, so
it should work with NetBSD too.
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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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