Subject: Re: NetBSD and Xen 2.0
To: Christian Limpach <chris@pin.lu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-xen
Date: 12/14/2004 12:35:51
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:59:44AM +0100, Christian Limpach wrote:
> >
> > Isn't one of the vmware compat modules that Frank did such an interface?
> > Maybe it would be possible to reuse it.
> >
> > > Did I forget some steps, or missed some important details ?
> >
> > I think you hit them all.  Chris?
> 
> yes, except I'm not quite sure why you need the pseudo ethernet device in
> this context?

We need to connect the xennet of the virtual machine to something in
the domain0 OS, right ?

> 
> The privileged domain console access might also need some tweaking.
> 
> I'll try to remember what else needed changing when I added dom0 support to
> Linux 2.6

That would help :)
Or maybe the sparce trees in the xen2.01 distrib has this ?

> -- but getting the PCI stuff working is the most important.
> 
> And please always include the RCS Id reference if you're copying an
> arch/i386 file to arch/xen, so we can track what updates need to be merged.

Sure, no problems.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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