From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 16 10:36:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBC8106568A; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:36:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from services.rulez.sk (services.rulez.sk [92.240.234.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EDE8FC20; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (services.rulez.sk [92.240.234.125]) by services.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433AA13344CB; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:17:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rulez.sk Received: from services.rulez.sk ([92.240.234.125]) by localhost (services.rulez.sk [92.240.234.125]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fA8a9rrM6rEe; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:17:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from mac.local (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: danger@rulez.sk) by services.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 61DB81334445; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:17:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49BE2754.3040706@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:17:56 +0100 From: Daniel Gerzo Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manolis Kiagias References: <20090315181312.GJ21693@eriador.mirkwood.net> <49BE24C9.6070409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49BE24C9.6070409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike Edwards , doc@FreeBSD.org, kib@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Xen DomU, dead link X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:36:49 -0000 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Mike Edwards wrote: >> Section 22.2.2.2 of 'FreeBSD as a Guest OS' in the handbook ( >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html >> ) recommends downloading the Xen build of the kernel and disk image >> from fsmware.com, which is perpetually down. Can this link be updated >> to a working mirror? In fact, are there working mirrors for the Xen >> build? >> >> > You are right, it seems the web server is down (although the server > responds to pings). I have not been able to locate another download site > for the files referenced in the Handbook. I guess we should wait a bit > and see if it comes up again. Or, if you (or anyone else) finds an > alternate site / can send me a copy of the files, I will be able to > upload them at a different location and update the links. Actually, I think downloading these images is no longer needed as the XEN DomU support has been committed to the SVN tree sometime last year and AFAIR it should be possible to build these images by yourself. I am cc:ing kib, who should know more on this. -- Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD Committer