[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#588839: Bug#588839: Bug#588839: pv-grub removed ?

Wed Mar 7 00:03:05 UTC 2012

On 03/06/2012 03:44 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 04:21 AM, Brian Szymanski wrote:
>>    pv-grub is also the best/only way to run hurd under xen:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen.html#index4h1
>>
>> it's also the best way by far to run netbsd without a separate /boot
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brian Szymanski
> PV NetBSD doesn't work with Xen>= 4.0... (no network).
>
> Thomas

As I understand it, PV-grub is not the same as PV. It just uses a PV 
grub to boot an arbitrary kernel (which can be virtualized or not).

IOW: PV NetBSD might not have network, but NetBSD booted with PV-grub does.

Cheers,
Brian Szymanski