Re: Xen on NetBSD 4.0-RELEASE and Windows HVM

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:06:56PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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.

For now, a NetBSD dom0 may not run properly on Xen 3.2. I'm not sure
the xentools will work either.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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