Subject: Re: netstat(1) and vmstat(1) in domU
To: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/01/2005 08:29:02
On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:26 AM, Juan RP wrote:

> Hi,  netstat and vmstat doesn't work when the boot kernel is not the
> same than /netbsd in domU, so I want to add the following paragraph
> to the howto:
>
> "Don't forget to copy the kernel used for booting into your / as
> 'netbsd', because it's needed to use some applications like
> netstat(1) and vmstat(1)".
>
> Is ok? do you have more suggestions?

Yes, put the ksyms pseudo-device in your kernel config file.

(Actually, that should probably just become mandatory.)

-- thorpej