Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:41:20 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? Message-ID: <d763ac660908290241o4440a5f5ucba1866c5ed5ebff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A98DFF6.4060404@prgmr.com> References: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> <d763ac660908281618u50d9ebf7i45f41fdb7f42924e@mail.gmail.com> <4A98DFF6.4060404@prgmr.com>
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I'd suggest "use whatever works". I use Centos 5.x since they use the latest "stable" xen patched kernel but its quite out of date. Adrian 2009/8/29 Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com>: > For working on the FreeBSD DomU, what should we use for the Xen kernel an= d > the Dom0? > > Most people use Linux for Dom0 I think, but I understand you can also use > Solaris. > > I was running the bleeding edge sources for a while, and I was able to ge= t > them to work, but not well. =A0I eventually abandoned the effort out of > frustration. > > However we might need some changes to the Xen or to the Dom0 sources, so > maybe it would be best to work with the bleeding edge. > > A problem I had is that I was trying to use Xen to support the developmen= t > of my own cross-platform product. =A0This machine has a RAID that contain= s > *all* of my files, going back almost twenty years. =A0So I was a little > hesitant to boot just any kernel on it. > > But now I have another box, purely for experimental use, that doesn't hav= e > any manner of precious data on it. =A0I can freely run anything on it, wi= thout > fear of losing anything valuable. > > Mike > -- > Michael David Crawford > mdc@prgmr.com > > =A0 prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. > > =A0 =A0 =A0Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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