Re: upgrading my dom0 box (again?) - foolish?

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On 10/24/25 13:44, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> with xl create -c, you should see the pvshim messages before
> the NetBSD kernel boot.
>
> One thing to make sure is if you can start hvm domUs, or pvh;
> netbsd-10 does support pvh boot. I'm seen some CPUs that claim HVM
> support but can't run pvh.
>
> No need to do a full install; just start a domU with pvh and
> a netbsd-GENERIC kernel as guest kernel:
>
> type="pvh"
> kernel = "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/kernels/netbsd10-GENERIC.gz"
> memory = 1024
>
> should be enough
>
> I don't remember but it's quite possible that pvshim isn't functional in
> 4.11; it's quite old.


Oh!  I guess I was misunderstanding some stuff - with this clue, I was 
able to get my formerly-PAE

8.1 system running a 10.1 GENERIC kernel with pvh!  So... I assume this 
will continue to work in Xen 4.18

and thus I can proceed with that part of the upgrade.  (I hope!) At 
least now I understand the state of things

well enough that I should be able to recover from any further setbacks.


Thank you SO MUCH for your help - Looking forward to entering the 2020s :)

+j