Re: recommendations for a Xen/NetBSD box?

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:21:58AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:27:46PM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote:
> > 
> > I now have the hardware, and decided to splash a few extra bucks for 
> > some more RAM (it was cheap).  I now have 6GB of RAM, which means if I 
> > want to allocate ~2GB to a couple of domU's, and some smaller chunks to 
> > some testbed domU's, can I do this with a NetBSD 4.0 i386 on RAID1 dom0?
> 
> No, you need a i386PAE or amd64 dom0, and NetBSD supports this only in
> -current. Then you'll also need i386PAE or amd64 domU kernels, so you
> won't be able to run netbsd-4 or netbsd-3 xen kernels (only current). You
> can run plain i386 as an HVM guest though.


Just asking -- could amd64 and/or i386 PAE support reasonably be pulled up
into the netbsd-4 branch for a NetBSD 4.1 release?

        Geert