Re: Xend refuses to start

["Marcin M. Jessa" <lists%yazzy.org@localhost>]

Christoph Egger wrote:

> > disk = [ 'tap:aio:/xen/windows/winxp.img,ioemu:xvda,w', 
> > 'phy:/dev/cd0a,ioemu:xvdc:cdrom,r' ]
>
> I think, here is the problem. blktap is not available for NetBSD.
> Use 'file:/xen/windows/winxp.img,ioemu:xvda,w'.
>
> (It is still not available with upcoming Xen 3.3 where I factored
> out Linux specific code into separate files and made the rest build
> on NetBSD.)

Thanks Christoph. It was indeed the disk option.
I can boot WinXP just fine now.

For the (google) record, this is my XEN config file to boot Windows XP 
on NetBSD 4.99.x


#Kernel and memory size
kernel = '/usr/local/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder = 'hvm'
memory  = '512'
vcpus=1
pae=0
acpi=0
apic=0
#usb = 1
#usbdevice = 'tablet'
#cpus = ''
device_model = '/usr/local/libexec/qemu-dm'
disk = [ 'file:/xen/windows/winxp.img,ioemu:hda,w', 
'phy:/dev/cd0a,ioemu:hdb:cdrom,r' ]

#  Hostname and Networking
name = 'winxp'
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=bridge0, mac=00:00:00:ff:fe:01' ]
dhcp = 'off'

#  Behaviour
#boot = 'd'  #d is cdrom boot, c is disk boot.
boot = 'c'  #d is cdrom boot, c is disk boot.
nographic='0'
vnc = '1'
#vncviewer = '1'
vnclisten = '127.0.0.1'
sdl='0'
stdvga='0'
serial='pty'
ne2000='0'
audio=1
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'


Cheers,
Marcin