Ok, I am successful in getting a NetBSD dom0 (using 3.3.2) to install &
boot Linux PV domu''s .. but only using file backed disks.
From the NetBSD site:
# VDEV doesn''t really matter for a NetBSD guest OS (it''s just
used as an
index),
# but it does for Linux.
# Worse, the device has to exist in /dev/ of domain0, because xm will
# try to stat() it. This means that in order to load a Linux guest OS
# from a NetBSD domain0, you''ll have to create /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2,
...
# on domain0, with the major/minor from Linux :(
# Alternatively it''s possible to specify the device number in hex,
# e.g. 0x301 for /dev/hda1, 0x302 for /dev/hda2, etc ...
I absolutely and utterly do not understand this. I''m using NetBSD HEAD
with LVM backed paritions, so with HVMs this has been fairly successful:
disk = [
''phy:/dev/mapper/rvg00--Xen--Pool-Domu01,ioemu:hda,w'',
]
But when trying with a pv, it fails to load the xenblk driver. (I guess,
.. something goes wrong).
Any thoughts/clues/ideas? I''m curious on how to get the
"hex" for the
device? Or what my next steps should be.
Thanks, Ben
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