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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:20:51 -0500
From: Aaron Peterson <lloyd.peterson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?
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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
>