Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:20:51 -0500 From: Aaron Peterson <lloyd.peterson@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <95550eab0512201820h7cc594a4j6ff6b47c2b49ad29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <95550eab0512201748v6a1470em82383318585ae446@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051220134009.4891343D70@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <ef10de9a0512201728s56e73e16j4db1d778567593af@mail.gmail.com> <95550eab0512201748v6a1470em82383318585ae446@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/20/05, Aaron Peterson <lloyd.peterson@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/20/05, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/20/05, Kevin Crenshaw <kcrenshaw@viscient.com> wrote: > > > Xen supports installation on Red Hat and Suse Linux. Does this mean = that > > > Xen will run on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility? Does anyon= e have > > > a recommendation for Virtualization software to run on FreeBSD? > > > > > > > I don't see why not, it's what we do with VMware. Why not try and port > > Xen to FreeBSD, you have the source code. > > I'm under the impression that Xen doesn't "run on" anything. It is a > "hypervisor" that loads before any other OS, and uses the first > virtual machine (which could easilly be freebsd as far as I know) to > translate system and network calls for all the other virtual machines. > > Aaron >
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