From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 16:48:32 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 ECF44106566B for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjado.ml.freebsd-xen@maecke.net) Received: from mail.xuat.net (maecke.net [85.25.179.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A3F8FC0C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.10.33] (g230246189.adsl.alicedsl.de [92.230.246.189]) by mail.xuat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 32E557A91; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:27:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C1F97E3.3060704@maecke.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:48:35 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tjado_M=E4cke?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd References: <010101cb0fb1$e015e370$a041aa50$@fr> <4C1E2575.2070405@maecke.net> <000301cb1090$df239fe0$9d6adfa0$@fr> <4C1E3A51.8080905@maecke.net> <000401cb1091$c5ae06d0$510a1470$@fr> <4C1E4AE5.8060300@maecke.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paravirtualized FreeBSD 8 Guest on Citrix XenServer 5.5/5.6 Host 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: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:48:33 -0000 Yeah... as I've said, i used HVM and i only spoke about my expierience with that :) So no PVM... tjado Am 21.06.2010 02:14, schrieb Adrian Chadd: > As I've said before, the FreeBSD-Xen PVM code requires someone with > the time and inclination to pick it up and maintain it. The commercial > focus of FreeBSD/Xen users at the moment seems to be on HVM support > rather than full PVM support. > > > > Adrian > > On 21 June 2010 01:07, Tjado Mäcke wrote: > >> I didn't do any tests in general. I used for a while FreeBSD HVM (and >> other os guests...) under xen-3.2.1. There I got problems that VM's >> react very slowly under ZFS/UFS I/O stress (tar of logs, etc...) till I >> need to reboot the guest. It was under FreeBSD 7.2 with ZFS beta but 8.0 >> didn't worked with that xen/kernel. The last weeks I tried Xen 4.0.0 but >> tap:aio and tap:tapdisk:aio cause complete host kernel crashes under I/O >> stress (dd if /dev/zero...). With Xen-4.0.1-rc3-pre I haven't these >> problems, FreeBSD 8 is working (so booting works ;) and states/times >> seems a lot more healthier. >> >> Softs: Webserver with a top 5000 (alexa) site (high db access - cached, >> some I/O because of downloads), high threaded game server (for wc3), >> mail server and other webservers/stuff... >> >> Am 20.06.2010 18:00, schrieb Guillaume Seigneuret: >> >>> Could you tell us what did you do to test the stability ? >>> Softs running on it, who many time and with who many users using it ? >>> >>> Thanks by advance. >>> >>> Cordialement, >>> >>> Guillaume Seigneuret >>> >>> >>> >>> Network and System Security Architect >>> Web : http://www.omegacube.fr >>> Address : >>> Hôtel Technologique - BP 100 >>> Technopôle de Château Gombert >>> 13382 Marseille Cedex 13 >>> >>> >>>