Joshua Penix wrote:
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.
Among other things.
I pulled a full xen-install kernel and tried that way, as well. That
also bombs out.
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.
You know I could forgive Xen this ...
Except that QEMU runs FreeBSD (and lots of others) just fine. Slowly,
sure, but it *works*.
So, the Xen guys do lots of work to make qemu *less* functional.
-a
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