Subject: Re: Xen 3.2.0 Packages
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/23/2008 00:02:06
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:53:12 +0900
Curt Sampson <cjs@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> On 2008-01-22 19:17 +0100 (Tue), Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:34:30PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > > Is anybody working on upgrading the xentools3 and xenkernel3
> > > packages in pkgsrc for Xen 3.2.0?
> >
> > I've not looked at it yet. It may require some adjustements on the
> > OS side too ...
>
> Any idea what these might be?
>
> I built, by hand, a Xen 3.2.0 kernel, following the "instructions" in
> the pkgsrc xenkernel3 Makefile, and that kernel seems to work fine
> (albeit without having tested domUs yet) on a Core 2 Duo system,
> except for the parallel IDE speed problem (which I will describe in a
> separate post). I have a suspicion this may be true of an AMD x64
> system as well; I'll be testing this tomorrow.
>
Do you need a new hypervisor?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb