NetBSD as Domain0 for Xen3

Manuel Bouyer announced in a message to the port-xen mailing list that NetBSD is finally usable as a Domain0 with version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD running on JavaStation Espresso

Julian Coleman reported that together with Valeriy E. Ushakov he was able to make NetBSD boot in single-user mode on a JavaStation Espresso. [0 comments]

 

binary packages for m68k available

About 1000 packages built from the latest branch pkgsrc-2006Q1 by Greg Oster are now available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/packages-2006Q1/NetBSD-3.0/m68k. The packages can be used on all ports based on m68k.
For some more details, see Greg Oster's announcement [0 comments]

 

IBM 7025-F30 and Motorola Powerstack E1 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7025 model F30 and the Motorola Powerstack E1 have been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

Xen-3 support pulled up to netbsd-3

Manuel Bouyer pulled the Xen-3 domU support to the netbsd-3 branch. For dom0 support, you'll have to run -current or wait for NetBSD 4.0. [0 comments]

 

New Restore CD build script

Dennis Chernoivanov has announced the availability of a new Restore CD build script, now available for testing and critique at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cdi/cobalt/restorecd.tar.gz. A NetBSD 3.99.17 restore CD built using these tools is available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cdi/cobalt/NetBSD3.99.17-restoreCD.iso. See his email to the port-cobalt mailing list for further details. [0 comments]

 

Xen3 domU is now functional

Manuel Bouyer has continued his work on getting NetBSD to work on Version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor over the past few weeks and NetBSD should now be functional on Xen3 [unprivileged domains] with block and network devices. [0 comments]

 

XFree86 in 16 and 24bit

Michael Lorenz announced that the pnozz(4) frame buffer now supports 8, 16 and 24bit color with full acceleration. See his message to the port-sparc mailinglist for more details. [0 comments]

 

IBM RS/6000 7024 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7024 model E20 and E30 has been added to the prep port. [0 comments]

 

(ia64) Moved sources to CVS

Contact port maintainer or mailing list for more details. [0 comments]

 

hp700 boot-from-disk, installation tools

Booting from disk now works (via a work-around for the underlying memory corruption bug). Release builds now include a sysinst-based installation LIF image. [0 comments]

 

Xen 2.0 HowTo

A short Xen 2.0 Howto has been made available. [0 comments]