Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD under HVM
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@gson.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 08/30/2007 12:23:23
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > Since this appears to be a known problem, is there a PR for it?
> >
> > It's an issue between NetBSD an qemu - the same thing happens with a
> > netbsd boot cd in qemu.
> 
> That's not my experience.  I just tried running
> 
>  qemu -cdrom release/i386/installation/cdrom/boot-com.iso -serial stdio -nographic -boot d
> 
> using the same ISO image that hung with Xen, and it booted just fine.

Hum, maybe newer versions of qemu fixed this then. Xen HVM is using an
older, heavily patched version of qemu for hardware emulation.

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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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