Re: NetBSD domU on ubuntu 16.04 / Xen 4.6.5

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

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:50:34PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 09:46:54AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:00:18PM +0100, Bartosz Maciejewski wrote:
> > > > > This looks oddly similiar to my problem to which I haven't found solution so
> > > > > far. I'm using NetBSD domU guest on Citrix Xenserver and after applying some
> > > > > patches to it all PV guests stops boot anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > This may be because you need
> > > > pv-linear-pt=true
> > > > 
> > > > on the Xen boot command line.
> > > 
> > > Does this apply to Xen 4.6.5 as well?
> > 
> > it depends if it got the security patch which disables it or not
> > (XSA240, from memory)
> 
> I tried starting the same NetBSD guest on a different server with Xen
> 4.6.5 with the same result.  I was going to try
> 
> # xen-cmdline --set-xen pv-linear-pt=true
> 
> but I don't have xen-cmdline on my servers.

no you need to edit the boot loader config

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