Re: Running NetBSD-current in PV mode under Xen

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

That was it, thanks to everybody.

sshd seems to work fine when the machine is in PV mode, so I guess
I'll answer to that effect to the pr.

So far xcp-ng has been working fine for the rather limited test cases
I have thrown on it, but combined with a self-built Xen Orchestra it
is a decent free fully functional virtualisation platform. A loss for
Citrix, methinks.


On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 08:38, Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > I was trying to respond to and old pr of mine -
> > https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=47486 - and
> > went through the installation of XCP-NG (after I found out about the
> > existence of this project and that Citrix has apparently changed some
> > licensing conditions after XenServer 7.2). Latest -current works in
> > HVM mode (after switching the network adapter emulation to e1000,
> > modulo the weird mouse behaviour under X, but I am not bothered about
> > it). If I switch the system to PV mode following the method described
> > in the above pr, the machine apparently starts and in some 10-15
> > seconds stops, without showing any console. I checked through the
> > XCP-NG log files, but could not iodentify anythin obvious (I may have
> > missed stuff - they are copious).
> >
> > I seem to recall a relatively recent discussion about NetBSD not
> > working any more under AWS PV - some parameter needed to be modified,
> > but could not find a reference; could that be related?
>
> /opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --set-xen pv-linear-pt=true
>
> See N.B. (3) here:
> https://www.precedence.co.uk/wiki/Support-KB-Citrix/XenServer-Hotfixes
>
> --
> Stephen
>


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