From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 8 21:20:29 2012 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 30346106564A for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:20:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.253.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3418FC0A for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (rideseveral.corp.yahoo.com [10.73.160.231]) by mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/y.out) with ESMTP id q78LJwlR000417; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:19:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=yahoo-inc.com; s=cobra; t=1344460799; bh=1T3zLaGDUs7jfUCbfy+zOrrfgxaqgH+/4P3gv8lZkZY=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date: Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=RNksvU29u/yKYkQogn8J8yv2XX1JblADZS1RfSI7v0ok1nFI+NNH324v/NdBPTkj0 tw0cQ8+KLO17Ex274rffy76zW0Iwo22KJSLevzkzel2aPxxS4nqZXUmh2KFghncs0N ew1BNmCN/mHQloblSnYRWWu5n/Ko59UgkPG6Fo6M= From: Sean Bruno To: arvind viswanathan In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:19:58 -0700 Message-ID: <1344460798.2813.3.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Milter-Version: master.31+4-gbc07cd5+ X-CLX-ID: 460799000 Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: On porting xen to Freebsd7 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: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:20:29 -0000 On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 13:53 -0700, arvind viswanathan wrote: > Hi, > > The OS that I work on is a flavor of FreeBSD7 and I am working on making it > work as a paravirtualized dom U. I was under the impression that I may have > to port a network driver and scsi driver to my current FreeBSD version and > I should be good to go. But that does not seem to be the case. I could not > find any PV drivers that have to ported to FreeBSD 7.0 Most of the related > threads started with FreeBSD8.0 or 9.0 and asked me to compile the kernel > with special flags. I am not in a position where I can simply upgrade to > the next FreeBSD version and evaluate xen, but I have to port the xen > subsystem into FreeBSD 7.0 Does any one know the modules that have to be > installed in FreeBSD7.0 to make it a PV domU. If this post does not have > enough info I can provide more information. > PS: would be really useful if a high level comment can also be provided. > > Thanks > Arvind > _______________________________________________ I'd probably start with http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/stable_7_xen/ If its too far out of date, let me know and I'll update the bits that don't work. Sean