From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 11 17:04:28 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 EC501106566B for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apowers@digipen.edu) Received: from smtp0.digipen.edu (smtp0.digipen.edu [206.15.72.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D528FC0A for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.10.56] (dit663.digipen.edu [10.10.10.56]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp0.digipen.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D57E5288B for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:04:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B4B5A1B.8040401@digipen.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:04:27 -0800 From: Atom Powers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org References: <32668C1E8A82284F873E8830836260571392BD1B16@office-server1.m247.local> <4B4B39A0.6080506@scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: <4B4B39A0.6080506@scsiguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: XenTools development for FreeBSD 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, 11 Jan 2010 17:04:29 -0000 On 1/11/2010 6:45 AM, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > On 1/8/2010 1:23 AM, James Smith wrote: > > ... > >> We want to use XenServer (iscsi SAN storage) by Citrix and FreeBSD. >> We've got a testing setup in place, so we can play around with the >> features. FreeBSD runs and installs quite well within this environment, >> along with Linux distros, Windows etc. There is something called >> XenTools (commercial software from Citrix), amongst other things its >> main job is to facilitate VM migration between nodes when using XenServer >> (it is awesome, no ping drops, at worst higher latency for two pings >> and then it's done). This runs on Linux ... but there is no FreeBSD >> version. > > Is this part of the XenServer-Essentials package? Can you point to a > URL that describes XenTools in more detail? > It is available on the installation CD, as a mountable ISO once the VM is installed. (Downloads for Citrix Xen are here: http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp ) -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- Director of IT DigiPen Institute of Technology (425) 895-4443