Re: port-xen/47157: No Howto for NetBSD/xen 6.0

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-xen/47157; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: jnemeth%NetBSD.org@localhost,
    gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
    gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
Subject: Re: port-xen/47157: No Howto for NetBSD/xen 6.0
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:51:38 +0200

 On Nov 8, John Nemeth wrote:
 >  } The NetBSD 6.0 release announcement mentions new Xen features such as
 >  } DomU MP support, but when I go to 
 > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html,
 >  } there is no mention of 6.0 at all.
 >  } 
 >  } A user following the instructions on that page will end up installing
 >  } NetBSD 5.0 (not even 5.1) - is that really the recommended release?
 >  
 >       One, can use a variety of different versions of NetBSD in a DomU,
 >  so obviously, one would need to adjust the instructions for the version
 >  they want to use.
 
 My primary concern is what NetBSD version to use for the dom0, not the
 domU.  The "Installing NetBSD as privileged domain (Dom0)" section of
 the HOWTO currently says I should install 5.0.  If 5.0 is indeed the
 recommended release to use, I'd like to see an explanation of why that
 is the case (in the HOWTO, not in a response to this message), and if
 it's not the recommended version, then the HOWTO is just wrong.
 -- 
 Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost