From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 8 08:42:49 2010 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 7B7A7106566C for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:42:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from James.Smith@m247.com) Received: from mx1.spambobby.com (mx1.spambobby.com [89.238.146.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35568FC13 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.spambobby.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BE916A423 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:25:30 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by SpamTitan at ohtele.com Received: from staffmail.openhosting.co.uk (unknown [89.238.157.212]) by mx1.spambobby.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30BE16A420 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:25:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from office-server1.m247.local ([fe80::24e5:567:7196:3452]) by office-server1.m247.local ([fe80::24e5:567:7196:3452%10]) with mapi; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:23:06 +0000 From: James Smith To: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:23:04 +0000 Thread-Topic: XenTools development for FreeBSD Thread-Index: AcqQO8zKuo7DWv8wQka6VYlO9wompQ== Message-ID: <32668C1E8A82284F873E8830836260571392BD1B16@office-server1.m247.local> Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: XenTools development for FreeBSD 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: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:42:49 -0000 Hi Guys / Gals, I work for a hosting company in the UK. We prefer to use FreeBSD for our s= hared hosting platform, over anything Linux based. However, we've hit a pr= oblem with virtualisation. We want to use XenServer (iscsi SAN storage) by Citrix and FreeBSD. We've = got a testing setup in place, so we can play around with the features. Fre= eBSD runs and installs quite well within this environment, along with Linux= distros, Windows etc. There is something called XenTools (commercial soft= ware from Citrix), amongst other things its main job is to facilitate VM mi= gration between nodes when using XenServer (it is awesome, no ping drops, a= t worst higher latency for two pings and then it's done). This runs on Lin= ux ... but there is no FreeBSD version. We're willing to sponsor development of XenTools for FreeBSD, if anyone out= there is interested in getting involved. Regards, James Smith, M247 Ltd