Install NetBSD guest on Linux host?

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>]

  Hi,

xen3 domU support has been merged to the netbsd-3 branch according to
netbsd.org.  So I went to netbsd-daily
(.../NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/200606090000Z/i386/binary/), fetched the bits
and tried to boot the installer kernel.  Didn't work.  Any idea what I'm
doing wrong?

my config file looks like this:

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# general
name    = "netbsd";
memory  = 128;

# booting
kernel  = "/vm/netbsd/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_U.gz";
on_crash = "destroy";

# virtual harddisk
disk = [ 'phy:xen/netbsd,0,w' ];

# virtual network
vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:62:73:64:00' ];
dhcp = "dhcp";

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Trying to boot results in this:

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Started domain netbsd
[ Kernel symbol table missing! ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

panic: HYPERVISOR_mmu_update failed

Stopped in pid 0.1 () at        0xc021f2eb:     leave
?(c07490c0,7ff0,d,c0794ea4,c022cb0f) at 0xc021f2eb
?(c0258d9b,0,1fa57a4,14041a63,c0794f0c) at 0xc01c9cb2
?(1,0,8d80,1,1) at 0xc022cb0f
?(c07658a0,c09e9000,80fb000,7,13) at 0xc02289d9
?(c0748d80,1000,0,c075f800,c0794f74) at 0xc0210fc5
?(c09e8000,fbc00000,c0794f68,c0794f6c,c09e8000) at 0xc022501b
?(c024f8d2,c0247c60,c076390c,1,4000) at 0xc02106fc
?(0,0,0,0,0) at 0xc01a5677
ds          0x11
es          0x11
fs          0x31
gs          0x11
edi         0xc0258d9b
esi         0x100
ebp         0xc0794e78
ebx         0xc0794e98
edx         0xc079a000
ecx         0
eax         0xc079a000
eip         0xc021f2eb
cs          0x9
eflags      0x202
--db_more--
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xen says (recent -testing tree):
(XEN) DOM9: (file=mm.c, line=1082) Bad L1 flags 800

The "Kernel symbol table missing!" message looks suspious to me as there
is a special loadbsdsymtab() function in the domain builder, so it
should be there, no?

cheers,

  Gerd

-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/julika-dora.jpeg