On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 15:31, pfsense sense <pfse...@kavadas.org> wrote: > Ignoring the lack of Xen dom0 support in FreeBSD for a moment, of course.
I definitely misunderstood your original post, my apologies. That being said, there isn't and doesn't soon look to be much motion within FreeBSD to provide dom0 support; even Linux hasn't had a recent kernel supporting it since 2.6.18, and the release scheduled for 2.6.29 may actually be pushed back to 2.6.30. Beyond that, it seems only qemu+kqemu has made it into the BSD space, which doesn't leave many good options for running pfSense as the root of a virtualized system. The general response I see from the FBSD camp to root-virtualization requests is "man 8 jail". NetBSD has recent dom0 support, but switching to that isn't very likely. Adrian has a good point - pfSense is a network security platform, and adding [file | virtual | foo] server features will only serve to dilute the focus and create superfluous support issues. Greg had another good point - multiple parallel pfSense instances like VDOM & VSYS might be the way to go, but serving as a general hosting platform far exceeds the purpose of pfSense. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
