Re: installing a 4.1 DOMU

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:34:01 +0100
Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau%entel.upc.edu@localhost> wrote:

> xl is not supported on xen 4.1 on NetBSD, and is still considered as
> an experimental toolstack even on Linux (xend/xm is the recommended
> toolstack in 4.1), so the results using xl might vary.

OK, however xl is being used by the xendomains rc.d script.  It also
seems more reliable to me than xend, but perhaps that is just my luck.

> Can you use vnd0 instead and vnd0a and xvda instead of hda1? I would
> recommend using the image file as a whole disk instead of a partition.
> 
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vnd0,xvda,w' ]

Actually not.  There is no /dev/vnd0 file so /dev/vnd0a is required.  As
far as I can tell, the second argument does not matter.  I have tried
hda1, xvda, 0x1 and 0x01; all work fine.  According to the NetBSD Xen
Howto (http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html) that field is just an
index for NetBSD DOMUs and is not really used.  Does that comment still
apply?

> > How is the root filesystem supposed to be defined?
> 
> If you replace hda1 with xvda this should work fine under xm.

Actually, it turns out that no definition for 'root' is required.

Cheers,
Brook