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Re: Migrating from x86 to amd64 Dom0 with x86 DomUs



Den 14.03.2010 00:05, skrev Steven Bellovin:
On Mar 13, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:

Den 13.03.2010 17:17, skrev Manuel Bouyer:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 04:11:11PM +0100, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:

Maybe I was not clear enough. The new system with Dom0 will be installed
from cratch with amd64 userland and kernel.
I just want to keep my i386 DomUs which I have running on a 32-bit
system now.

You'll have to use the PAE kernel, but no other changes are required.
I've done this conversion on several systems already.


Great, thanks. BTW, do we still need grub to boot XEN kernels?

On an amd65/5.x Xen system, I'm using native NetBSD booting.

Do I need any special option to the kernel or to the xen kernel to enable all the IDE drives?
I have a problem with my Dom0 kernel not recognizing my IDE drives.
I've two IDE drives - each of 500GB and a SATA card with one attached drive.
The GENERIC kernel recognizes all the drives just fine, the SATA drive as wd0 and the IDE drives as wd1 and wd2.
But the Dom0 kernel can only find the SATA drive...

This is the relevant part of boot.cfg
menu=Boot Xen with 512MB for dom0:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0 console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=512M

I recompiled 5.0_STABLE [1] kernel and the Xen version I'm using is 3.3.2 [2].

[1]:
NetBSD zeus 5.0_STABLE NetBSD 5.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #1: Sun Mar 14 22:40:05 CET 2010 root@zeus:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

[2]:
xenkernel33-3.3.2   Xen 3.3.2 Kernel
xentools33-3.3.2nb2 Userland Tools for Xen 3.3.x


Marcin.



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