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From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Boot FreeBSD 10 in HVM mode under Xen?
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--On 31 July 2015 17:01 +0200 Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 <roger.pau@citrix.com> =
wrote:

>> Can you technically have a system that has HVM network (i.e. realtek)
>> but still has disk PV, and/or is agile? (i.e. can run xen-tools)?
>
> Yes, this is certainly possible. IIRC I posted a patch to the
> freebsd-xen mailing list in order to do that. I will try to find/refresh
> it and post it again so you can try it. It might have to wait until
> Monday however, since I'm quite busy today.

That'd be wonderful if you can sort that at some point - it'd be a much=20
better work around than we currently have for a number of machines. Heck we =

could probably get rid of a whole pool of 'have to run non-agile HVM only'=20
FBSD machines.

Thanks for your time,

-Karl