Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:08:33 +0200 From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U. Message-ID: <4713F2F1.4090608@ntecs.de> In-Reply-To: <200710151335.27991.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com> References: <48344.172.16.9.1.1192472836.squirrel@www.xtra-net.be> <200710151335.27991.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com>
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Freddie Cash schrieb: > On October 15, 2007 11:27 am Vincent Blondel wrote: >> I am trying to install FreeBSD-current as Dom/U on my Core2 Quad server >> hosting Linux Ubuntu 7.10 as Dom/0. > > Is that a quad-core CPU or a quad-CPU system? > > If it's a quad-core CPU, it should support Intel hardware virtualisation > feature. If it does, you don't need any Xen patches or support in > FreeBSD. Just create a Xen VM that supports hardware virtualisation (not > a paravirtualised VM) and install FreeBSD as per normal. That's the > beauty of the Intel VT and AMD VX (or whatever they call it now) > features -- no need to patch an OS to run in a Xen VM. Does anybody know if there are big differences in performance of running an unchanged OS under Xen with hardware virtualization turned on vs. a paravirtualized OS? Or any other problems with an unchanged OS using hardware virtualization? If not, then this is clearly the way to go! Regards, Michaelhome | help
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