Hello, recent i386 Xen kernels don't boot any more, they fails to start init, as can be seen here: http://www-soc.lip6.fr/~bouyer/NetBSD-tests/xen/HEAD/ (I also tested a 201612200210Z kernel, with the same result)
balloon0 at xenbus0 id 0: Xen Balloon driver balloon0: current reservation: 262144 KiB xenbus: can't get state for device/suspend/event-channel (2) balloon0: current reservation: 65536 pages => target: 65536 pages ignore shutdown request: xenbus: can't get state for device/suspend/event-channel (2) boot device: xbd0 root on md0a dumps on md0b root file system type: ffs kern.module.path=/stand/i386pae-xen/7.99.51/modules warning: no /dev/console uvm_fault(0xc0c648e0, 0xc0ea9000, 1) -> 0xe Process (pid 1) got sig 11 panic: SPL NOT LOWERED ON TRAP EXIT fatal breakpoint trap in supervisor mode trap type 1 code 0 eip c0105424 cs 9 eflags 246 cr2 c0ea9018 ilevel 0 esp cd872f7c curlwp 0xc1452980 pid 1 lid 1 lowest kstack 0xcd8702c0 Stopped in pid 1.1 (init) at c0105424: popl %ebp ?(c05633b4,c0c6b5a0,c01049bf,cd872f98,cd872f98,c1452980,cd872f10,cd872f8c,c042c6 c8,c01049bf) at c0105424 uvm_fault(0xc1575ee8, 0x4489c000, 1) -> 0xe fatal page fault in supervisor mode trap type 6 code 0 eip c0110f75 cs 9 eflags 10246 cr2 4489c031 ilevel 8 esp cd8727c8 curlwp 0xc1452980 pid 1 lid 1 lowest kstack 0xcd8702c0 kernel: supervisor trap page fault, code=0 Faulted in DDB; continuing... ?(c05633b4,c0c6b5a0,c01049bf,cd872f98,cd872f98,c1452980,cd872f10,cd872f8c,c042c6 c8,c01049bf) at c0105424 uvm_fault(0xc1575ee8, 0x4489c000, 1) -> 0xe fatal page fault in supervisor mode trap type 6 code 0 eip c0110f75 cs 9 eflags 10246 cr2 4489c031 ilevel 8 esp cd8727c8 curlwp 0xc1452980 pid 1 lid 1 lowest kstack 0xcd8702c0 kernel: supervisor trap page fault, code=0 Faulted in DDB; continuing... and so on. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --