From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 17:26:59 2012 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 A9D17106564A for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hugo@barafranca.com) Received: from mail.barafranca.com (mail.barafranca.com [67.213.67.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C468FC1A for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [172.16.100.24]) by mail.barafranca.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1056884B; Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at barafranca.com Received: from mail.barafranca.com ([172.16.100.24]) by localhost (mail.barafranca.com [172.16.100.24]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QZbxc1gkSrnV; Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (a89-152-174-115.cpe.netcabo.pt [89.152.174.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.barafranca.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C467847; Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FC65825.1090006@barafranca.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:25:57 +0100 From: Hugo Silva User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org References: <4FC3B195.8020007@laukamp.me> <4FC3C83B.503@laukamp.me> <20120528220305.GC16584@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> <4FC3FB04.8050500@laukamp.me> <20120528224815.GE16584@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> <4FC618DB.5060901@laukamp.me> <05D52D66-D523-446D-A34F-56A4004698AC@sysconfig.org.uk> <1338396010.9051.3.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1338396010.9051.3.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sean Bruno Subject: Re: FreeBSD Xen Dom0 Support 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: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26:59 -0000 On 05/30/12 17:40, Sean Bruno wrote: > And, I think, there is a 64bit PV config now in development at: > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/amd64_xen_pv/ > > This is prerequisite work for a dom0 on freebsd which is under > development. Stay tuned, things are happening! Interesting, Sean! FreeBSD has certain things that would make it attractive as a dom0 - MAC, GEOM, ZFS, among others. The amd64 PV port is also interesting by itself. I for one have always noticed dramatic performance losses when running HVM+PV, which has made me shy away from FreeBSD recently, as 95% of the stuff I admin is virtualized these days. Anyway - it's a good move on behalf of the project, I think Xen is here to stay, and good support for it is essential for the future! Regards, Hugo