Re: port-xen/50659: Xen4.5 crash with vnds

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/50659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>,
        Sebastian Ponitka <sebastian%xenoserver.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, port-xen-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-xen/50659: Xen4.5 crash with vnds
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:09:29 -0800

 On Jan 16,  7:33pm, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 } On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:59:14PM +0100, Sebastian Ponitka wrote:
 } > No this the latest one I got from ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-7-0/201601140120Z
 } > 
 } > Is there a possibility to build a old style custom kernel with more than 4 ?static? vnd devices? Maybe this is the root cause of the issue.
 } 
 } The behavior seems to be random and inconsistent. hardcoding in
 } kernel the number of vnd devices may help, but I can't definitively
 } say it will.
 
      I can't say with certainty, but I doubt that cloning devices
 will work with static configuration.  They are setup and operate
 differently.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from Manuel Bouyer