NetBSD domU and the real server

["Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz%kinzesberg.de@localhost>]

Hi folks,

I have stumbled across something that is new to me with NetBSD.

I have setup  domUs with  NetBSD5 on two dual Pentium III servers with 
Debian5 dom0. When I copy them to a single Xeon 2.8 GHz machine running 
a Debian5 dom0 and run them there, they dom0 kernel crashes within a few 
hours; that is reliably reproducable.

When I setup new NetBSD5 domUs on the Xeon machine and run them, the 
Debian5 dom0 runs fine.

I do not have the same problem with Debian5 domUs on these servers; I 
have setup several on the Pentium III servers and run them on the Xeon 
machine without such a problem.

Does the NetBSD installer configure the domU for a certain hardware? Do 
I have to template domUs for every major intel architecture? And if yes, 
does that depend only on the processor(s) or the chip sets as well?
Or is it just a problem when transferring the domU from a multi 
processor to a single processor system?

Any hint or help is appreciated?

Dirk