From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 21:28:38 2009 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 2216C1065766 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:28:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat.macy@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6118FC1F for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:28:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat.macy@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so2145877rvf.43 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:28:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Uj2xOSQgLyneLt/Rhe3wIMAfvkTpjYG+YFvnBUSNls=; b=pbfzxVmUbaSmpuVkwfmaLqdLBH2hifzEsDVRghBV+qEvHVweQ65CLLYyf+mcNliPRB 8QWvUKF2NBbRBoVJSdbmNKKJ8u2jb/5gVNvXqr+4uWSPJw/ALdgH21AORFROr0NtbbXZ 2OKB7srAZ95fJedML95UPVwdo4DV45MCbtmVo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; 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; b=QAAyWNPKqeoBgU9dp6F1cMal3qfpyJTAZin4O5YbUIQT4jbZOVdkktQdNZl0GFsdoZ 4vxXUSMcn22mri5veIY8bkylFuFu7Y4i4Ko34j/0b5ekKjL18gxRyhgDgqrPTHfh+dxO +CWPjUmYe98b8upOR1x/PUI8yjkiK3eadxgUY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: mat.macy@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.158.4 with SMTP id g4mr265286rve.160.1234214916583; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:28:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1234213751.28262.3.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> References: <87d4drxuvn.fsf@tabernacle.localnet> <1234213751.28262.3.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:28:36 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 498ae8d6c1232eac Message-ID: <3c1674c90902091328t45ce61b4q96fff69b52101a65@mail.gmail.com> From: Kip Macy To: mister.olli@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Julian Stecklina Subject: Re: Xen in Virtual Machine? 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: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:28:42 -0000 Running Xen under vmware works fine (albeit slowly, and periodically exposing bugs in vmware) - I've done it many times. You're likely to run in to problems on less mature platforms that rely on hardware virtualization. However, there is no fundamental reason that paravirtualized guests should not work there. Cheers, Kip On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Mister Olli wrote: > Hi, > > from what I can tell this is impossible since XEN needs to have access > to ring0 of the CPU which has the highest priviledge level. And there > can only be one kernel at a time. > > I know that with VMware there's a thing like VMware ESX server in VMware > workstation (combination could be slightly different ;-)) possible. > > I don't know that much about the XEN internas to say if it's possible to > modify XEN, so that something similar is possible. > > I once tried building a XEN dom0 kernel under VMware workstation 6.0 but > the building process itself failed with some errors on APIC. > > -- > Mr. Olli > > > Am Montag, den 09.02.2009, 20:39 +0100 schrieb Julian Stecklina: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to build a kvm (or VirtualBox) virtual machine to painlessly >> experiment with Xen on my 32-bit Linux laptop (Core Duo L2400 with >> hardware virtualization foo) or my 64-bit Linux desktop box (Phenom >> 8450). So far neither of the two manage to run Xen with either of the >> above mentioned VMMs. Has someone already done this or am I out of luck >> and have to get a real test box? >> >> Regards, > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >