From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 18:52:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DAEE42 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 18:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f43.google.com (mail-oa0-f43.google.com [209.85.219.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B811DF for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 18:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id o6so8001837oag.30 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=VsOMcBEuU4NBJfMj37TO5W4JvOgTPCWunWAjbXkheGQ=; b=X50bftV3W/E4chQccuUhvb6WErfE3hmJqx04Ba2CLB7ubJc6ChiSnSGmL7SeHo/nvn bHivrAbZqpzYdOLLZbPjy5WYPABq8Ufi5c2wyMLGe0WGoK/TXQVWtSVFTGV2q9qNHZhB +uLJWnElo9J36X/9pKfozJj7uxl8YUhnr7ET/ck+VmAErQ1mk8xbGrcTRDU9aydVHlv1 5g+AgSy+4CKJJ+v8YaCmskVTbpvYLUf6Lx9vggHBxdzdZ0sqDkfsJ+uhyUQawVEAvHZs UOSjLJk86dqkpfVUMmAUR9AKqt293MbizOwKQ6sSs0eZRQSz/3aNDpCCzryJcXtb+URj mkGw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.137.198 with SMTP id qk6mr13734947oeb.18.1368471173412; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.46.167 with HTTP; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> References: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing From: Michael Sierchio To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkdzP+uktLNtXAWM/gSfIy+EVcnSBLVM4/cxaM+IVaoQx0BUHzp/Sp1yM625TAMX5FERlyh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , xen-devel , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" , "xen-users@lists.xen.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:52:54 -0000 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Roger Pau Monn=E9 wrote: > Hello, > > Recently Justin T Gibbs, Will Andrews and myself have been working on > improving the Xen support in FreeBSD. The main goal of this was to bring > full PVHVM support to FreeBSD, right now FreeBSD is only using PV > interfaces for disk and network interfaces when running as a HVM guest. .= .. I think should be encouraged. We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute instances. Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM available for all instance types before this happens? - M