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Re: port-xen/52389: NetBSD EC2 images should use HVM with PV drivers



On Jul 19,  3:46pm, bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost (Benny Siegert) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: port-xen/52389: NetBSD EC2 images should use HVM with PV driv

| > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:30:01AM +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
| >> I asked Colin Percival how FreeBSD does this, he told me to simply
| >> build an amd64 image instead of a xen image and upload it.
| >=20
| > That doesn't make sense as there is no PV support for non-Xen kernels.
| 
| Is there something fundamental that prevents NetBSD from having PV drivers =
| in a non-Xen kernel? FreeBSD can do it, Linux has PV drivers by default AFA=
| IK, so why can=E2=80=99t we?

We need to write them :-)

christos



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