--- wikisrc/ports/xen/howto.mdwn 2014/12/24 15:56:04 1.35 +++ wikisrc/ports/xen/howto.mdwn 2014/12/24 16:02:49 1.36 @@ -152,6 +152,24 @@ Therefore, this HOWTO recommends running xl, the NetBSD 6 stable branch, and to use an amd64 kernel as the dom0. Either the i386 or amd64 of NetBSD may be used as domUs. +Build problems +-------------- + +Ideally, all versions of Xen in pkgsrc would build on all versions of +NetBSD on both i386 and amd64. However, that isn't the case. Besides +aging code and aging compilers, qemu (included in xentools for HVM +support) is difficult to build. The following are known to fail: + + xenkernel3 netbsd-6 i386 + xentools42 netbsd-6 i386 + +The following are known to work: + + xenkernel41 netbsd-5 amd64 + xentools41 netbsd-5 amd64 + xenkernel41 netbsd-6 i386 + xentools41 netbsd-6 i386 + NetBSD as a dom0 ================ @@ -584,7 +602,7 @@ working vif-bridge is also provided with #!/bin/sh #============================================================================ - # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.34 2014/12/24 15:55:32 gdt Exp $ + # $NetBSD: howto.mdwn,v 1.35 2014/12/24 15:56:04 gdt Exp $ # # /usr/pkg/etc/xen/vif-bridge #