Re: State of Stubdomains on NetBSD

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On 07/02/13 13:14, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Samuel Thibault, le Thu 07 Feb 2013 12:03:47 +0100, a écrit :
>> tech mailinglists, le Thu 07 Feb 2013 11:56:39 +0100, a écrit :
>>> I read in the wiki that stubdomains aren't support on NetBSD. Will subdoms be
>>> supported on NetBSD? Is someone working on that topic actually?
>>
>> I see no reason why it should be hard to do it,
> 
> Except that you need a gcc compiler which is able to build mini-os &
> such, but I guess this is already the case?  I see that there is already
> a -U __FreeBSD__ in the stubdom/Makefile, so it looks like somebody has
> already given a try on FreeBSD, and NetBSD shouldn't be very far.

I've given it a look some time ago, but the build of newlib (if I
remember correctly) had dependencies on a bunch of Linux header files
which are not present on NetBSD. I guess a solution would be to ship all
those necessary headers with stubdoms, and use them when needed, but I'm
afraid that will probably crash with headers already present in NetBSD.

Another (and much simpler option) is to compile the stubdomains on a
Linux system and then copy them to your NetBSD system (or fetch them
from a packaged version of Xen from a Linux distro).