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From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD-amd64 in Xen 4.0?
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Janne Snabb wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:56:28PM +0000: 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Cracauer wrote:
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> > Just to be clear: the disk file has to be a whole disk, with
> > partitions, right? hvmloader would then proceed through the regular
> > bootloaders in the boot sector?
> 
> Short answer: yes.

Thanks again.

I think I'll stay with PV for now and if I want amd64/HVM I'll go the
PXE boot route.  I didn't try Xen's PXE support but it sounds much
more attractive than having a BSD-labeled and BSD-filesystemed vnode
file floating around in the Linux dom0.  Plus I already have a PXE
boot environment for all these guests.

Martin
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