From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 19 04:24:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73907106566C for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 04:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifi.khan@twincling.org) Received: from s217.sureserver.com (s217.sureserver.com [203.194.200.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16408FC1B for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 04:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifi.khan@twincling.org) Received: (qmail 4932 invoked by uid 1002); 19 May 2009 04:24:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.8?) (saifi.khan@twincling.org@59.92.196.6) by s217.sureserver.com with ESMTPA; 19 May 2009 04:24:13 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Saifi Khan X-X-Sender: saifi@localhost To: Adrian Chadd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 04:24:16 -0000 On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what > is and isn't supported at this time. > > Adrian > > 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : > > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > >> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > >> together. > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > >> > >> Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > >> > >> Adrian > > > > Hi: > > > > What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen > > 3.3.x ? > > > > My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified > > (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 > > box. > > > > Any pointers or observations ? > > Hi Adrian: Thank you for the clarification about "no dom0 support in FreeBSD 8.x as of now". Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he was busy. i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the following: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? Thank you for your time. thanks Saifi.