On Dec 16, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Although, when I get some time, I'm likely to unload on a rant about Xen. I'm not very happy with it ("What do you mean that I can't even run this OS when fully virtualized? What kinda POS "virtualization" is that? What you really mean is Linux on Linux, and we claim anything else if it barely makes it to a boot screen. Lying bastards.").
Are you getting the BTX halt error right on bootup of the installation CD? Just for giggles I tried a HVM Xen install of BSD and that's as far as I got... both 5.5 and 6.2, both 32 and 64 bit.
Right now I'm at the "typical badly documented crapware produced by Linux dweebs" stage and looking really hard at VMWare license fees.
Actually knowing your situation, I'd say just go grab the free VMware Server and have a party. FreeBSD is a fully supported guest OS. I was only suggesting Xen at the beginning thinking that BSD could easily be paravirtualized Without that being the case, VMware is an infinitely preferable option because... as seen above... the QEMU HVM machine emulator is complete and total crap. And even if you did get it running, performance would be miles away from VMware.
Because, you know, VMWare freakin' works.
And, ironically (at least according to this particular mailing list post), VMware's free and easy availability is responsible for the fact that BSD won't boot under HVM:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-July/017174.html -- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
