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Re: Xen on NetBSD 4.0-RELEASE and Windows HVM



On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:02:58 -0500
"Dinesh Nadarajah" <dinesh.nadarajah%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
> I am getting ready to install NetBSD 4.0 and Xen on my Dell Laptop
> (D630). Mu ultimate goal it to have it running Windows XP as an HVM
> guest.
> 
> If anyone has any writeup they can post on the steps and procedures in
> additional to the HOWTO, that would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Any gottas to watch out for?
> 
> Which version of Xen should I be installing? 3.0.x or 3.1.x. I also
> see from Xen's site that they have released 3.2.
> 
I think that for a laptop, you really need Xen 3.2, since (as I
understand it) Xen doesn't support laptops properly (i.e., power
management and suspend/resume) on earlier releases.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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