On 10/22/07, Nick Guenther  wrote:

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> On 10/22/07, ropers  wrote:

> > On 22/10/2007, carlopmart  wrote:

> > > Hi all,

> > >

> > >   I know that time to time somebody do the same question, but I need to know it:

> > > is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for OpenBSD

> > > 4.3 or 4.4???

yum
> > It already exists. You can run OpenBSD DomUs (ie. run OpenBSD as a Xen

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> > "guest"**), but AFAIK you still can't run OpenBSD Dom0s (ie. run

> > OpenBSD as a Xen "host"**).

> >

> > See http://www.ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/

> >

true
> > But you need at least one Dom0 (which when I last looked into this

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> > still could not be OpenBSD) and you can install OpenBSD as a DomU.

Only recently using HVM, not paravirtualization
> So that means that OpenBSD has code in it right now that detects if

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> it's running under Xen and paravirtualizes itself?

>

no
I would like to vouch for openbsd working great as a guest, but my

guest has crashed a dozen times. However I think this is due to the

debian linux dom0 having broken sata code for the controller in use.

dom0's dmesg is filled with debug statements from sata related places

in the kernel that should never be printed. We're in a messy

de-centralized linux development world trying to get a stable dom0

patched together. It sucks.
The paravirtualization port appears dead to me. I've tried to keep up

on it, but the guy's blog no longer mentions it, his repository is

often down, and when it is up the commits do not appear to be very

frequent. Also his blog hasn't mentioned it in a year or more.
http://hg.recoil.org/openbsd-xen-sys.hg

http://anil.recoil.org/blog/