--- wikisrc/ports/xen/howto.mdwn 2014/12/24 00:06:31 1.17 +++ wikisrc/ports/xen/howto.mdwn 2014/12/24 00:11:15 1.18 @@ -91,11 +91,23 @@ no SMP support for NetBSD as dom0. (The need SMP; the lack of support is really a problem when using a dom0 as a normal computer.) +Architecture +------------ + +Xen is basically amd64 only at this point. One can either run i386 +domains or amd64 domains. If running i386, PAE versions are required, +for both dom0 and domU. These versions are built by default in NetBSD +releases. While i386 dom0 works fine, amd64 is recommended as more +normal. (Note that emacs (at least) fails if run on i386 with PAE when +built without, and vice versa, presumably due to bugs in the undump +code.) + Recommendation -------------- -Therefore, this HOWTO recommends running xenkernel42 (and xentools42) -and NetBSD 6 stable branch. +Therefore, this HOWTO recommends running xenkernel42 (and xentools42), +the NetBSD 6 stable branch, and to use amd64 as the dom0. Either the +i386 or amd64 of NetBSD may be used as domUs. NetBSD as a dom0 ================ @@ -449,7 +461,7 @@ working vif-bridge is also provided with #!/bin/sh #============================================================================ - # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.16 2014/12/24 00:06:01 gdt Exp $ + # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.17 2014/12/24 00:06:31 gdt Exp $ # # /usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge #