Subject: Re: Disk performance hit with Dom0 vs native?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/17/2005 11:19:13
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:56:36PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 
>>However, there's xentools20-2.0.7 available as a binary package for 2.0, 
>>so I'm confused. Perhaps some explanation should be added to the 
>>(excellent) HOW-TO?
> 
> 
> Ha, that's a mistake. The package's Makefile doesn't check the NetBSD
> version, and xentools20 doens't need anything but python to
> build, so it can be build on any NetBSD version supporting python.
> But it won't be usefull on anything not i386, and anything < 3.0_BETA.
> 

Well, the xentools20 package installs the "xm" python script, which 
*can* be used to remotely control a xend process on another machine, so 
I think it's appropriate to build on NetBSD 2.0.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>