From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 30 04:13:01 2009 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 36ABC1065672; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:13:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lsc@prgmr.com) Received: from luke.xen.prgmr.com (luke.xen.prgmr.com [38.99.2.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224BA8FC15; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by luke.xen.prgmr.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0D2CE1041EB; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:13:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Randy Bush References: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> <4A98DFF6.4060404@prgmr.com> From: Luke S Crawford Date: 30 Aug 2009 00:13:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? 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: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:13:01 -0000 Randy Bush writes: > > I started with FreeBSD Jails, and moved to NetBSD/xen2, and only left > > because of the ram limit. Now that NetBSD 5 is out, I think it's time > > for me to switch back. > > what stops me from that path is that disk pool flexibility is a bit > limited on netbsd. zfs or lvm let me slop disk space to domUs as they > need it. what about the tap: driver and friends? qcow:? (these are issues I will need to figure out) LVM snapshots are so slow that I find them unsuable, so I'm not really losing much by moving to the tap: driver (granted, I am pushing my disks to the limit. lvm snapshots work fine if your disks are lightly loaded and/or faster than mine.)