Re: Xen 3.2.0 Packages

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:53:12 +0900
Curt Sampson <cjs%NetBSD.org@localhost> 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