NetBSD
so, NetBSD-stable doesn't support PAE or AMD64, and non-PAE Xen systems are hard to come by these days. (understandably... 4GB isn't much these days.) to run on most Xen systems, you need a i386-PAE kernel or a AMD64 (x86_64 in linux nomenclature. Same thing as the AMD64 arch in NetBSD)
NetBSD-current supports both AMD64 (as a Dom0 and DomU) and i386 PAE (DomU only) This will be an overview of how to set that up (specifically on prgmr.com systems, but it should work with any provider that gives you pygrub or pvgrub or the like.)
in the DomU, w/ prgmr.com PyGrub,
title NetBSD install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU
title NetBSD run
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/netbsd-XEN3_DOMU root=xbd1a
boot the XenU, select the 'NetBSD install' pygrub option
in the install install onto xbd1 (xbd0 being /boot)
choose ftp for the install media
you will need to change the base directory to something like pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200809050002Z
go through the regular install. reboot, and boot into the netbsd kernel in pygrub Once it is up, you probably want to append ,softdep to the options field in /etc/fstab
Once you are booted into the NetBSD domU if you want to change the grub menu options, execute
mount_ext2fs /dev/xbd0d /mnt
and you can edit grub/menu.lst and change the kernel. (Note, grub will continue to load off that xbd0d partition; this is because of the way the prgmr.com system is setup. other providers may be different)
for the Dom0: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html#netbsd-dom0
install current
(if disk is slow, look into softdep)
untar pkgsrc install pkgsrc/emulators/netbsd32_compat40 install pkgsrc/sysutils/xentools33 and xenkernel33
mkdir -p /xen/kernels cp /usr/pkg/xen3-kernel/xen.gz /xen/kernels/xen-3.3.gz cd /xen/kernels wget ftp://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200809050002Z/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz gunzip netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz
now pkg_add -f ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/4.0/i386/sysutils/grub-0.97nb8.tgz
install grub
# grub --no-floppy grub> root (hd0,a) Filesystem type is ffs, partition type 0xa9 grub> setup (hd0)
install menu.lst
must explicitly state console=tty0 if you are using a vga console
/etc/ifconfig.bridge0 file with:
create !brconfig $int add ex0 up
or otherwise create the bridge on boot
