G'day, To everyone involved, including those I've already spoken to privately.
I think the best thing you all can do is talk to the FreeBSD Foundation about your views and uses for FreeBSD/Xen. I'm sure the foundation would be interested in donations towards FreeBSD in general and I hope that enough interest -and- donations with a voiced interest in Xen will gently prod them into kicking the support into shape and then invest into keeping it up to date. Adrian 2009/8/22 Florian Heigl <florian.he...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > for over 3 years we're now looking at a mostly-working, breaking, > half-working port, breaking, half-working of FreeBSD to xen. > personally I think this is a very sad state, especially considering how well > FreeBSD (-current, with patches) worked in Xen 2. > > I wonder if starting a fundraiser (like the ones initiated by rsync.net) > might help this problem. > I think we would have to scratch up enough for a month of kip's (or someone > else's) time to see everything addressed and the xen patches finally being > merged in a sane way like NetBSD did it. > > Assuming that most people do not very much care about their dom0 OS, but > strongly care for running FreeBSD (instead of Linux, NetBSD, Solaris > flavours) for their virtualized servers, it would be the best way to go to > make almost everyone happy. > > Please note that I don't represent a company but would still scratch up > money or donate some bunch of hardware to this end because I'm completely > sick of having to tell people (in #freebsd.de, in some forums and, worst of > all, even on trade fairs when helping at the FreeBSD booth) that "it used to > be working but right now it's not stable for production use, but it might > actually build right now" and point them at one of the above OS according to > their needs, when actually they'd just love FreeBSD. > > Honestly, I do not believe this state will *ever* get better without some > massive effort and I'm very much looking forward to some discussion about > this. It think the support should get -stable'd while the linux kids are > still trying to make ZFS work stable :) > > I'll scratch up $150 (or the same in hardware), so if a few more people and > 1-2 companies chime in it might be enough to make: > NO new features, just fix it and properly merge it into the amd64 and i386 > archs. > > a nice weekend to you all, > florian > > > > -- > 'Sie brauchen sich um Ihre Zukunft keine Gedanken zu machen' > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
