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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:19:40 +0200
From:      =?windows-1252?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To:        Udo Rader <listudo@bestsolution.at>, <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: available hypervisors in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <551BFE7C.9060907@citrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <551BEBBD.4040509@bestsolution.at>
References:  <551BC8B3.2030900@bestsolution.at> <551BCB74.1060900@citrix.com> <551BEBBD.4040509@bestsolution.at>

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El 01/04/15 a les 14.59, Udo Rader ha escrit:
> On 04/01/2015 12:41 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> El 01/04/15 a les 12.30, Udo Rader ha escrit:
>>> As far as my homework digging revealed, FreeBSD supports four hypervisors:
>>>
>>> * bhyve
>>> * KVM
>>> * QEMU
>>> * VirtualBox
>>
>> Make that 5:
>>  * Xen: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0
>>
>> Altough FreeBSD doesn't run KVM, and I'm not sure whether QEMU fits
>> under the hypervisor category, it's an emulator instead, so the list
>> should probably be 3 (Bhyve, VirtualBox and Xen).
> 
> thanks for pointing Xen out. I was indeed not aware of Xen running on
> FreeBSD, an intriguing (and well known) alternative.
> 
> The wiki says, that migrate/save/restore are missing from the *BSD port.
> Is that still valid?

Yes, I'm currently finishing the patches for Xen. This is not missing
from FreeBSD, but from Xen itself when running Dom0 in PVH mode.

Roger.


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