From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 14 00:47:06 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 6019D106566C for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl) Received: from smp.if.uj.edu.pl (smp.if.uj.edu.pl [149.156.82.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072288FC0A for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from users.smp.if.uj.edu.pl (users.smp.if.uj.edu.pl [::ffff:10.0.1.244]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by smp.if.uj.edu.pl with esmtp; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:47:03 +0200 id 00020076.4F88C907.000074B3 Received: from baryluk by users.smp.if.uj.edu.pl with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SIr8o-0001OH-9i; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:47:02 +0200 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:47:02 +0200 From: Witold Baryluk To: Hsin-an Chen Message-ID: <20120414004701.GL2563@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> References: <20120413211209.GK2563@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen 4.1.2 on FreeBSD 9.0 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: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:47:06 -0000 On 04-13 15:07, Hsin-an Chen wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for quick reply. But, is it really true? (still not give up....) > > This is interesting, then what is the purpose of this mailing list and > the wiki there? I am confused. > It sounds like it's under development, or working fine but no detail here. > dom0 support is work in progress I guess. Maybe even it is possible to boot FreeBSD as dom0, but because of lack of backend drivers you will not be really able to run or use domU in sensible way (no harddisk, no networking, no console probably). Mailing list is mainly about domU now. It works pretty nice now (compared to state of random crashes year or two ago). Please correct me somebody if Im wrong. > I never use NetBSD before, but I will guess FreeBSD can make it if > NetBSD can. OpenBSD can but they decide to drop it few years ago. > > Anyway, really appreciate your reply. > > Hsinan > > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Witold Baryluk > wrote: > > On 04-13 14:03, Hsin-an Chen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am new here, as I am trying to install Xen 4.1.2 on FreeBSD 9.0, as > >> host OS and dom0. After searching so many articles online, I didn't > >> find anything about how to install Xen on FreeBSD step by step. > >> >From the web site http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen, I couldn't find > >> any docs/guide at all. As I know, some VPS service like RootBSD, they > >> are running FreeBSD as their host OS and dom0. Is it possible? > > > > I think it is not possible to use FreeBSD as dom0. > > > > You can use NetBSD or Linux. > > > > -- > > Witold Baryluk -- Witold Baryluk JID: witold.baryluk // jabster.pl