Re: NetBSD vs Linux

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

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:52:33AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 05:42:33PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > Did you use the ramdisk (and told xen to load it) ?
> > It worked for me with
> > kernel = "/domains/vmlinuz.debian"
> > ramdisk = "/domains/initrd.debian.gz"
> 
> On a related note, I have a FreeBSD 8 VM which I use for building some
> legacy software in a chroot containing a very old version of FreeBSD.
> 
> I would like to try a PV FreeBSD kernel but I cannot figure out how to
> start it from a NetBSD domU -- I literally have no idea how to tell the
> Xen startup script what to do with FreeBSD's
> kernel-as-directory-of-random-stuff -- the FreeBSD guys all seem to use
> pygrub.  So I am using HVM.  Hopefully as the NetBSD Xen kernel gets more
> modular we won't grow this problem!

FYI, pygrub is also available from the NetBSD xentools packages.
In the domU config file remove the kernel= and ramdisk= lines, and add
bootloader = "/usr/pkg/bin/pygrub"

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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