Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:45:01 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@gmail.com> To: "Doug Rabson" <dfr@rabson.org> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen stuff Message-ID: <9bbcef730812011045t4769cb76g2028c5f9c39af524@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4389C4C1-0EEB-4841-8F02-DC44BBC223F4@rabson.org> References: <4389C4C1-0EEB-4841-8F02-DC44BBC223F4@rabson.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
2008/12/1 Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>:
> I will be working on improving Xen support in FreeBSD for the new few
Great!
> months. My main goal is to add support for native Xen drivers to an amd64
> kernel which is running in Xen's HVM mode. These drivers will take over from
> the slow emulated devices and provide most of the performance benefits of a
> paravirtualised kernel. I'm initially going to be supporting FreeBSD 6.x but
> I will port it all forward to head and 7.x when it works properly.
For the not-quite-yet-initiated : does this mean you're working on
paravirtualized drivers for Xen dom-U ("guest" case)?
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?9bbcef730812011045t4769cb76g2028c5f9c39af524>