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Re: [Xen-devel] Building firmware on NetBSD

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Building firmware on NetBSD
From: Pierrick Brossin <pierrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:16:33 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:12:05PM +0200, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Thanks for your time.

I will try to make ioemu work on NetBSD and see how things go.
What do you mean with relevant processor. One that supports
virtualization such as Core 2 Duo right ?

Is running unmodified os as fast as running a modified one ?


-Pierrick Brossin


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