Re: NetBSD vs Linux

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:56:21PM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>>
>> 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!
>>
>
> Did you do anything special with the FreeBSD 8 HVM guest config? I just  
> briefly tried using 8.0-RC1/amd64 under a NetBSD 5.0.1_PATCH/amd64 dom0  
> and it keeps panicking during boot.

I'm using i386.  I haven't tried amd64.  The NetBSD dom0 is amd64, but
since I'm using HVM, that shouldn't matter.

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