From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 09:31:51 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 895911065672 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:31:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royger@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117DF8FC19 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so1978010wib.13 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:31:50 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of royger@gmail.com designates 10.180.92.71 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.92.71; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of royger@gmail.com designates 10.180.92.71 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=royger@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=royger@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.92.71]) by 10.180.92.71 with SMTP id ck7mr3922935wib.3.1330075910066 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:31:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6XHTlZJA7SYuHcfNCmxCg1Hsmdth1NkI0kDuABKhP04=; b=Nlze9PPHV6NfRj9j2FSEDKN8N7fv8gKJw8sG3EjveFVWZlabp6J6BtcHGx6J/HIIPX pDplekfNSgJL8lzorLJFz5TF6sqb+LaRgZ/2HsYJk8JNvooZO392LKJlztAFtzCbz1pT gh1s+tfGIWkw/84Oul31MrUYG62OMRaTb7rUo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.92.71 with SMTP id ck7mr2937364wib.3.1330074029150; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:00:29 -0800 (PST) Sender: royger@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.213.219 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:00:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com> References: <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:00:29 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ts68A7DqTueggsi_zUgBTEH8VhQ Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= To: Eric Schnoebelen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 09:31:51 -0000 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 wi= ll > - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt sa= id > - it was here if it was anywhere. =C2=A0Another Ian named this location a= s 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. Regards, Roger. > -- > Eric Schnoebelen =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0e= ric@cirr.com =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 http://www.cirr.com > =C2=A0Server (n.), 1. Large, extremely expensive machine that goes "Ping!= ". > =C2=A0Measuring at least 25 cubic feet, heavy, bulky and giving of more h= eat > =C2=A0 =C2=A0than a nuclear power plant. =C2=A0It's big, it's bad, it's b= eautiful and > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0makes it pretty clear what happened to this year's IT= -budget.