Re: Xen 4.2 added to pkgsrc

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:34:58PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On 26/05/13 13:01, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:00:13AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>      I await the new report with baited breathe.  :-)
> > 
> > I tested the xen 4.2 packages, and could start and stop a netbsd PV domU
> > without problems. There may be issues with the rc.d scripts, but as
> > I have a special setup where 4 xen versions can coexists, I'm not in
> > a good position to debug this.
> > 
> > HVM guests are not working yet as qemu nor the boot loader are built
> > at this time. To avoid duplicate work I'll ask: is anyone working on this ?
> 
> Last time I've checked Qemu traditional was working fine on Xen 4.2 &
> NetBSD, the problem is only with Qemu-upstream. Have you tried adding:
> 
> device_model_version="qemu-xen-traditional"
> 
> To your HVM config file?

No, I'm not at this point. sysutils/xentools42/patches/patch-Makefile
disable building of firmware/, qemu-xen-traditional-dir/ and
qemu-xen-dir/. No firmware and no qemu, HVM just can't work.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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