From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 09:43:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3A6106566B for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:43:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Christoph_Egger@gmx.de) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 277918FC12 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:43:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2012 09:17:15 -0000 Received: from osrc3.amd.com (EHLO rhodium.osrc.amd.com) [217.9.48.20] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 24 Feb 2012 10:17:15 +0100 X-Authenticated: #6616588 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18AzG5ldoIAZGNvfbLB6HpGR75AxzXFchvlXEl1jl pZ43vu3eRcIQp+ Message-ID: <4F475597.3080508@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:17:11 +0100 From: Christoph Egger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; NetBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111114 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= References: <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , Scott Strobele , port-xen@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to get "a" version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit) X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:43:56 -0000 On 02/24/12 10:00, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > 2012/2/23 Eric Schnoebelen: >> >> Scott Strobele writes: >> - Hi Y'all, >> - I am digging through the site, and getting ready to call it a day, I will >> - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said >> - it was here if it was anywhere. Another Ian named this location as well. >> - I just have preferences of stability for a mysql database that will be >> - large, and need to scale as far as size of cluster, it should be a lot of >> - fun. >> - I have used BSD before, and am not finding what I am looking for yet. >> >> NetBSD has DOM0 and DOMU support in NetBSD 4.*, 5.* and 6.0_BETA. >> >> I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN >> hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've >> considered (I've got a couple of boxes that won't boot a generic >> kernel, but run fine with a xen hypervisor abstracting the >> hardware.) > > I've done something similar, but with a Linux distribution (Alpine > Linux), you can find more info here: > > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-01/msg00092.html > > It's a very minimal Dom0 LiveCD (80MB), that contains a very basic > Linux system (uclibc + busybox) plus the necessary tools to run xen. > It's quite fast, because it runs from ram. It's still a beta test, but > we will probably start releasing this Dom0 LiveCDs with each Alpine > Linux release starting from the 1st of April (approximate scheduled > release date of the next version). > > I would also like to do something similar with NetBSD, but that will > require some work. Zafer made some NetBSD 5 LiveCDs which can boot Xen Dom0 out of the box. Christoph