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

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

The following reply was made to PR port-xen/39452; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        thomas%feddersen-engineering.de@localhost
Subject: Re: port-xen/39452: "Internal error" with Xen 3.1.4 and HVM
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:45:19 +0200

 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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