Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:23:41 -0400 From: "Sabeeh Baig" <baigsabeeh@gmail.com> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, ady@freebsd.ady.ro Subject: Re: Xen Status Message-ID: <de2964020808210723gf16d250hda68769bc35f9304@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0808210548h792bd6cdg9915dd38580d2b5@mail.gmail.com> References: <de2964020808201912x19be2efby820c1994e0cafcf8@mail.gmail.com> <78cb3d3f0808202351s2ff2aa04va6ba44cffb28cdf7@mail.gmail.com> <e71790db0808210548h792bd6cdg9915dd38580d2b5@mail.gmail.com>
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I think the developers over at Sun are working on porting VirtualBox to FreeBSD, or at least providing support for it in the open source edition. There are indications on the VBox website, even a page dedicated to progress. It does compile on FreeBSD, but doesn't function because of the lack of a kernel driver. The problem with VirtualBox is that it runs Linux guests well, but all other operating systems are a hit or miss. It itself is somewhat of a work-in-progress. According to that thread, DomU is a starting point that will lead to Dom0 support some time down the road, right? I don't think VMWare will provide a native version for FreeBSD. I don't think they provide anything for other Unixes such as Solaris or AIX, which also have dominance in the server market. VMWare would have considerable potential buyers with those markets, but they don't provide anything for them, so FreeBSD is a long shot. However, that thread on VMWare forums does mention updating the port. How hard would that be to do? Is there a reason that it's essentially been abandoned? Sabeeh On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Xen (DomU support) has recently started its life in HEAD (FreeBSD-CURRENT). >> >> Follow this thread under freebsd-hackers: >> >> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?g8962l$q9l$1 >> >> I agree with you that we need more virtualization offerings in order >> to keep the [Free]BSD platform interesting for the users. I guess >> we'll have to push harder vendors like VMware, Sun (xVM/VirtualBox), >> etc. ... >> For VMware support, see also : >> http://www.rofug.ro/article.php/fbsd_as_vmware_host_vote >> >> Regards, >> Adrian. > > I'd not expect anything from VMware in the foreseeable future. > > VirtualBox is open source now but someone with enough knowledge and > time would have to work on porting it to FreeBSD. The hardest part of > the work would be porting the kernel module, I guess. > > (CC to the list, now) > > -- > If you think things can't get worse it's probably only > because you lack sufficient imagination. > -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Sabeeh Ahmed Baig
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