Re: Hypervisor advice

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 16 August 2017 at 18:08, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
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>> Just to be 100% clear, you're using NetBSD as the Hypervisor OS?
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> Yes, Xen as the hypervisor, and NetBSD as the dom0.    I haven't tried
> netbsd-8 yet with this.
>
Are we still limited to no SMP on dom0? I seem to remember someone
saying they were looking to fix it, but not heard any more?

>> What virtual machines do you use? And are they Xen specific or not
>> aware that they are virtualized?
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> I'm using NetBSD i386 and amd64 as domUs.  So they are PV guests.
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> I hear that non-PV guests work fine too, but have not tried it.

Whilst it was a few years ago now, I successfully installed Windows 7
under Xen using NetBSD as a DOM0, I don't remember there being a huge
amount of issues. (I think I may have hit some limit on network
interfaces that required some googling to fix but it wasn't a huge
issue).