On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 01:37:17PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > One of my hosting providers is converting VPSes from PV to HVM > virtualization due to security issue > https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-286.html > > They say NetBSD does not work under HVM mode and can choose a different > BSD (or Linux). > > Can someone tell me about this? I did look briefly at > http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/ but don't understand the context > of the wiki saying it is supported but the hosting provider saying it > does not work.
plain HVM, with emulated devices, works without problems (and always has). If they only support PV devices, then it works only in HEAD (GENERIC supports it) -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
