RE: [Xen-devel] Building firmware on NetBSD

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

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> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Pierrick Brossin
> Sent: 03 October 2006 15:17
> To: Petersson, Mats
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Building firmware on NetBSD
> 
> 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 ?

Yes, although I prefer the AMD versions, for obvious reasons... 
> 
> Is running unmodified os as fast as running a modified one ?

Depends on what you're doing, generally the modified will win - but in
some cases it's hard to get the source-code to modify [or find someone
that is ABLE to modify it for that matter]. 

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Mats
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> -Pierrick Brossin
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