On Dec,Monday 20 2010, at 8:46 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 04:50:39PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> writes: >> >>> Well, in the current state, modules are a not enabled in the Xen kernels >>> (modules should be built specifically for Xen, but the build tools do not >>> allow this right now). So you have to compile all what you need in a >>> monolitic kernel. But ZFS is only available as module, so unfortunably >>> this means no ZFS for xen. >>> One way around it is to run NetBSD in a HVM guest. >> >> Is it that in src/share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk one would have to add some >> support to build a XEN DOMU flavor of modules? Is it reasonably easy >> to just hack it in so that one gets XEN modules *instead* of standard >> modules? (Obviously not suitable for committing, but could be useful.) > > there's also the search path issue; the uname values are the same > for i386 ws xen kernels (by purpose, there was no real reasons to > make a difference for userland) the module path is the same. > This is IMHO a mistake, the modules should be tied to a kernel, > not a userland ...
Or we should have i386-pae architecture for pae build kernels. Regards Adam.
