Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:00:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org> Subject: Re: XEN questions Message-ID: <46AD1C1B.4030903@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46AD1B6B.2010605@crackmonkey.us> References: <62b856460707290755s1225eaffy951caa9c81857de3@mail.gmail.com> <46AD1B6B.2010605@crackmonkey.us>
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Adam J Richardson wrote:
> Michael Grant wrote:
>> Does XEN work with freebsd 6.x?
>>
>> Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does
>> one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If
>> I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it
>> from scratch or is there a way I can virtualize what I already have
>> runing?
>>
>> Michael Grant
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Afraid I don't have any experience of Xen, but I know Qemu works well
> and I know for sure VMware has a cloning tool that does exactly what
> you're after. Although after trying it once it occurred to me to
> wonder why I'd want to run an identical copy of my laptop on my
> laptop... :P
>
> If Xen doesn't have a cloning tool, perhaps you can use the VMware
> cloning tool and tweak the clone to run under Xen? After all, VMware
> can use Qemu disks and Virtual PC can use VMware disks, so it might work.
>
> HtH,
> Adam J Richardson
No, Xen doesn't work with FreeBSD as the dom0 OS. There's work being
done to port it to CURRENT (7), but I have some lingering doubts as to
whether or not Xen could be MFC (Migrate from CURRENT)'ed.
For questions about Xen, I suggest you consult the documentation up
on the xen-source.org site and/or ask them.
-Garrett
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