Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:17:11 +0100 From: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@gmx.de> To: =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> 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: <4F475597.3080508@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <CAPLaKK5ewWxi7OOA-UQZL-XRz5Oj6Hjz0CzhP4XoVtZ_2RpZ4Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAM=89q0aDXsv=-uUBVMT-KT9d=AWMxuwg6dgrF-Ro9i6N164XQ@mail.gmail.com> <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com> <CAPLaKK5ewWxi7OOA-UQZL-XRz5Oj6Hjz0CzhP4XoVtZ_2RpZ4Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/24/12 10:00, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > 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 will >> - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said >> - it was here if it was anywhere. Another Ian named this location as 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. Zafer made some NetBSD 5 LiveCDs which can boot Xen Dom0 out of the box. Christoph
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