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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 in XenServer 6.2
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Comments inline.

On 12-Apr-2014, at 9:29 pm, Anjan Upadhya <anjanu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> We are experimenting with FreeBSD 10 GENERIC kernel on Citrix =
XenServer 6.2
> and build number 70446c.
>=20
> Our assumption from reading the FBSD 10 docs is that now being a Xen =
guest
> is natively supported and we don't need to compile a custom kernel to =
make
> it work. However, we are seeing dismal performance on disk and network
> access. Its just generally very slow.


I have FreeBSD 10 and 11 running on XenServer 6.2+CloudStack with =
service
packs installed. Performance seems Ok to me for my use cases.

Do you have any specifics test which I can run to compare performance =
with
yours? I=92ll be happy to run them on my rig.

Regards.
@shankerbalan=