[nycbug-talk] xen & netbsd

[Johnny Lam]

michael wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:27:43 -0500
> Johnny Lam <jlam at pkgsrc.org> wrote:
>>
>>The xentools20 package writes a message to stdout during installation 
>>that you can see again with:
>>
>>	pkg_info -D xentools20
>>
>>It should have told you to:
>>
>>	cd /dev && sh ./MAKEDEV xen
>>
>>This creates the special devices that dom0 needs to communicate with
>>the Xen hypervisor.  I believe that in a future version of NetBSD,
>>these Xen devices will be part of the base installation of
>>NetBSD/{i386,amd64}.
> 
> I did see that, thanks.  I completed that step when instructed by the
> 'make install' of xentools20.  That gave me /dev/xencons
> and /dev/xenevt.  I am not certain that was the problem.
> 
> Just now, I did it again.. but still do not have /kern/xen/privcmd.
> Without it /etc/rc.d/xend fails; telling me so.
> 
> Any other ideas?

Ah, I'm embarrassed -- I didn't look more closely at the error you're 
having.  It looks like you need to ensure kernfs is mounted on /kern. 
Adding the following to /etc/fstab and running "mount /kern" should do 
the trick:

	kernfs	/kern	kernfs	rw

I'll see about getting this added to the xentools20 MESSAGE file.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam at pkgsrc.org>