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From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kevin Crenshaw <kcrenshaw@viscient.com>
Subject: Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?
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On 12/20/05, Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> wrote:
> Kevin Crenshaw wrote:
> > Xen supports installation on Red Hat and Suse Linux.  Does this mean th=
at
> > Xen will run on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility?  Does anyone =
have
> > a recommendation for Virtualization software to run on FreeBSD?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
>  From what looks like their home page
> (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/)
>
> In addition to Linux, members of Xen's user community have contributed
> or are working on ports to other operating systems such as NetBSD
> (Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy) and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich). A port
> of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not
> available for release due to licence restrictions.
>
> Looks like someone is working on a port of it.  Try contacting Kip Macy
> to see what the status is.
>

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/OSCompatibility

Umm so is Xen sorta like VMware ESX Server? Does Xen run directly on
the hardware and then partitions it, like the IBM midrange systems do?
If it does run on the hardware what about device drivers etc.