From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 11:47:07 2008 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 889B81065670 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:47:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A308FC08 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:47:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so390386yxb.13 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:47:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=tcIrkD/DQRPpKrcBYNt2pvYRht2FWnvU0dvWW0KfW10=; b=YZr1nuKJ2d/6EwA9i+y7tNrcnEWlsW7rE8IJF+3aIKSdw/YCXLznJRe2RQMH2yezR7 voVrCO4hR1Fbk3K8W1vNFEcXU9zwWOTwULw+CcesMyElsAIzaukciT308ua8rXv0TEWq NLhDTPubSnyFo7+aSFky+jFEmjIJ/a1U5fEpk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=SzUBtOqaJDBlLlA63QKFi0UHk4S1REAdcub+QBcRUbuOG+tC2WVVHWIXvI41GBcqH9 6T2AVGeaFBtqgA6juxhEW76iotF0fxp7wf73Zdi7G9ZjFifRm7JLbRHV98HapxqDKFpT RW+9t/VK48ggQl5E/OvQNmjnujxtjhpppNR5I= Received: by 10.64.88.5 with SMTP id l5mr310828qbb.68.1227266172011; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.184.9 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:16:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <11167f520811210316v5c5dd5b3lb923c8dfdf1834f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:16:11 -0600 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: "Guy Antony Halse" In-Reply-To: <20081121052513.GA75575@ru.ac.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081121052513.GA75575@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XenServer 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: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:47:07 -0000 On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Guy Antony Halse wrote: > Hi > > We've recently been benchmarking FreeBSD on both VMWare ESX and Citrix > XenServer, since we're trying to decide on an enterprise virtualisation > product. > > Does anyone know whether the Xen paravirtualisation features being added by > this project work with/are compatible with the Citrix's XenServer 5? So far > as I can tell, XenServer 5 is based on Xen 3.0 so I'm guessing not :(, but > it would be interesting to know if anyone's actually tried this or had any > experience with it. > > If I'm right about the Xen version, are there any plans to support earlier > Xen versions? > > - Guy Maybe this link will help you out, I do not think dom0 support is being worked on atm currently I am using NetBSD for Xen dom0 http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks