Re: port-xen/39452: "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:00:10AM +0000, Thomas Feddersen wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-xen/39452; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Thomas Feddersen" <thomas%feddersen-engineering.de@localhost>
> To: <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> Cc: 
> Subject: RE: port-xen/39452: "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM
> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:24:07 +0200
> 
>  Thanks for your quick reply!
>  
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Manuel Bouyer [mailto:bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost]
>  > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:35 PM
>  > To: port-xen-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost; 
> gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost;=20
>  > netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost; thomas%feddersen-engineering.de@localhost
>  > Subject: Re: port-xen/39452: "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM
>  >=20
>  > =20
>  >  Xen 3.1.4 doens't work with NetBSD 4.0. You need a kernel
>  > and userland from  a recent netbsd-4 branch, and rebuild=20
>  > xentools3 and xentools3-hvm on  this system (so that it uses=20
>  > the right /usr/include/xen/* files).
>  > =20
>  
>  Okay, a few questions please:
>  
>  I'm operating a production (file) server in a soho environment=20
>  and feel comfortable with a stable release version
>  1- is a version of Xen3 available, that will work with NetBSD 4.0? If =
>  yes,
>  from where?

Not that I know, but netbsd-4 will probably be more stable on Xen than
NetBSD 4.0 is :)

>  
>  If no:=20
>  2- can I use the "update" funtion of sysinst?

Yes

>  3- which branch? netbsd-4-0? netbsd-4? HEAD?=20

netbsd-4

>  
>  I would like to ask for your recommendation on the following config:
>  INTEL ,DG965WH chipset (ICH8)
>  4GB RAM =20
>  6 AHCISATA drives =E0 300GB
>  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
>  4- which architecture? i386? amd64?

If you want Xen/amd64 you need HEAD. If you want to stay on netbsd-4
you're stuck with i386. It'll work, but you'll be able to use only
about 3GB RAM out of 4.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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