Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:00:29 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> To: Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com> Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>, Scott Strobele <blaquebx@gmail.com>, 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) Message-ID: <CAPLaKK5ewWxi7OOA-UQZL-XRz5Oj6Hjz0CzhP4XoVtZ_2RpZ4Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com> References: <CAM=89q0aDXsv=-uUBVMT-KT9d=AWMxuwg6dgrF-Ro9i6N164XQ@mail.gmail.com> <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com>
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2012/2/23 Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com>: > > 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.
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