RE: [Xen-devel] Building firmware on NetBSD

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Pierrick Brossin
> Sent: 03 October 2006 15:05
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Building firmware on NetBSD
> 
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:53:53PM +0200, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > What do you mean "when I run it"? Hvmloader is not a regular
> > application, it's a piece of code intended to be loaded by 
> Xen into the
> > virtual machine and executed there - is that what you're 
> doing, or are
> > you typing "hvmloader" at the command prompt on the machine 
> - the latter
> > is almost guaranteed to fail immediately (_start sounds 
> like the first
> > thing that happens). 
> 
> Yes I am running in on CLI. I am happy to hear it. I have successfully
> been able to build hvmloader and will therefore try to run something
> using it tonite when I'll be home.
> 
> Is it the only thing we will need to be able to run 
> unmodified guest os?

That, ioemu (modified qemu) and the relevant processor, yes... Hvmloader
copies the bios into the correct place in memory, so that it's able to
boot the "disk" that you specify. Of course, you do need an operating
system to run too ;-)

--
Mats
> 
> Thanks you for your time
> 
> -Pierrick Brossin
> 
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