Subject: Re: NetBSD on Xen3 amd64
To: Sebastian Wasilewski <sebastian@wasilewski.name>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/14/2008 00:05:28
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:49:17PM +0000, Sebastian Wasilewski wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I have been trying to make NetBSD 4.0 working on the Xen 3.0.3 (Linux as
> a Dom0) but unfortunately without successes.
> 
> The i386 kernel does not boot at all:
> 
> Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_compat_check: guest type
> xen-3.0-x86_32 not supported by xen kernel, sorry\n')
> 
> 
> The NetBSD/Xen How-To states: "a suitable kernel is provided as part of
> the i386 and amd64 binary sets: XEN3_DOMU" so I was trying to find the
> 64bit version of the Xen kernel but I did not find it within the NetBSD
> 4.0 Release nor in daily binary snapshot.

It also states "for Xen3 amd64 you'll need NetBSD-current from December 2007 or
newer". NetBSd 4.0 doesn't fit (even if it was released in December 2007,
it was branched before). You have a current kernel in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200801100002Z/amd64/binary/kernel/

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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