Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
VIMAGE and jails are OS-level virtualization, orthogonal to Xen. I want to run Xen so I can build and test Ogg Frog[1] on each of the target platforms I plan to support. I built a fancy Xeon box so that I could even build and test on all the platforms simultaneously. I also operate a couple Internet servers, which are themselves Xen DomUs at commercial Xen Virtual Private Server hosting services. I'd like to place each service that they operate into a jail, so that if someone manages to bust in because of a security hole in one of the server programs, they would only be able to get at the contents of that particular jail. But all of the jails are just subdivisions of a single operating system; I can't run other OSes within them. [1] http://www.oggfrog.com/free-music-software/ No, there is nothing to download yet. Real Soon Now. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
You can use microkernels[1] for almost the same thing. It's what we do at Technische Universität Dresden. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge Footnotes: [1] There is a sexy new microhypervisor to be released Real Soon Now(tm) too: http://eurosys09dw.systems.ethz.ch/steinberg.pdf Based on L4Linux, I believe that the amount of work required for porting a PV OS is much less than creating a new personality for a microkernel. That said, isn't a hypervisor really a microkernel with device and virtual memory abstraction API? Cheers, Kip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
Peter Jeremy peterjer...@optushome.com.au writes: On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Xen also lets you write other OSes without needing to care about the hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen. He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of the underlying hardware. That really hasn't been exploited to its full potential though. This isn't a particularly new idea: The 'CMS' part of IBM VM/CMS was a hypervisor-aware OS that couldn't run on bare metal. Relying on the hypervisor for some traditional OS services offers plenty of scope for interesting developments. One area would be in University Operating Systems courses - it would again be possible to offer practical coursework on operating systems that are comprehendable in their entirety (ala V6 and Minix). You can use microkernels[1] for almost the same thing. It's what we do at Technische Universität Dresden. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge Footnotes: [1] There is a sexy new microhypervisor to be released Real Soon Now(tm) too: http://eurosys09dw.systems.ethz.ch/steinberg.pdf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
Kip Macy km...@freebsd.org writes: Based on L4Linux, I believe that the amount of work required for porting a PV OS is much less than creating a new personality for a microkernel. That said, isn't a hypervisor really a microkernel with device and virtual memory abstraction API? OS personalities were a promise that was always brought up with microkernels, but never really delivered. Although, L4Linux could be seen as Linux personality for L4. The nice thing about microkernels is that they abstract enough of the underlying hardware to be open for a lot of experimenting. I think this is quite nice for student projects. On the microkernel vs. hypervisor topic: L4 has a very nice virtual memory abstraction and you can build device abstraction quite easily on top of it. If you only want paravirtualization, L4 could have delivered that years before Xen did. And actually it did: L4Linux exists for quite some time and I believe that there was also a paper on live migration of L4Linux instances way before Xen did that. IMHO given some commercial support (and some foresight), L4 could have been the better Xen. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Xen also lets you write other OSes without needing to care about the hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen. He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of the underlying hardware. That really hasn't been exploited to its full potential though. This isn't a particularly new idea: The 'CMS' part of IBM VM/CMS was a hypervisor-aware OS that couldn't run on bare metal. Relying on the hypervisor for some traditional OS services offers plenty of scope for interesting developments. One area would be in University Operating Systems courses - it would again be possible to offer practical coursework on operating systems that are comprehendable in their entirety (ala V6 and Minix). -- Peter Jeremy pgpJlQcTtVSmP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? I cannot speak for the developers but at BSDCan it was stated that dom0 would be a large chunk of job that deserves funding. The developers are interested. . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? VIMAGE and jails are OS-level virtualization, orthogonal to Xen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? Probably not - the systems are too different now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
[Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what is and isn't supported at this time. Adrian 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment together. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery Notable bits: pygrub works. :) Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? Hi Adrian: Thank you for the clarification about no dom0 support in FreeBSD 8.x as of now. Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he was busy. i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the following: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package. The FreeBSD port is being beta- tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well already. My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports tree fairly soon. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army. * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what is and isn't supported at this time. Adrian 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment together. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery Notable bits: pygrub works. :) Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? Hi Adrian: Thank you for the clarification about no dom0 support in FreeBSD 8.x as of now. Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he was busy. i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the following: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package. The FreeBSD port is being beta- tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well already. My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports tree fairly soon. What i intend to do is this: 1. capability to run FreeBSD as dom0 with Xen. 2. setup and run Eucalyptus in an OS (linux, solaricle, BSD) hosted as domU. 3. run SaaS (storage as a service) solutions leveraged on BSD. 4. develop VMM orchestration solution. 5. Package the entire stuff. 6. Interested folks can build services/solutions on top of this infrastructure. Legal 1-6 is all Open Source some BSD 2.0 and most of it ASL 2.0. Open Source infrastructure leveraged on FreeBSD powers the cloud ! thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what is and isn't supported at this time. Adrian 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment together. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery Notable bits: pygrub works. :) Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? Hi Adrian: Thank you for the clarification about no dom0 support in FreeBSD 8.x as of now. Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he was busy. i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the following: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package. The FreeBSD port is being beta- tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well already. My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports tree fairly soon. What i intend to do is this: 1. capability to run FreeBSD as dom0 with Xen. 2. setup and run Eucalyptus on FreeBSD/dom0 3. run SaaS (storage as a service) solutions leveraged on BSD. 4. develop VMM orchestration solution. 5. Package the entire stuff. 6. Interested folks can build services/solutions on top of this infrastructure. Legal 1-6 is all Open Source some BSD 2.0 and most of it ASL 2.0. Open Source infrastructure leveraged on FreeBSD powers the cloud ! thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? If Kip (and other Xen-clueful people get funding) - and there's time - then I bet so. . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? These solve different problem sets. :) People seem to think virtualisation is virtualisation. It isn't. It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen solves a certain set of virtualisation problems. . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? No idea. Is it stable? :) Personally, I'd prefer to see the FreeBSD DomU stuff 100% bulletproof and documented before more stuff is hacked on, but as I said before, I'm just interested in getting the current pieces into some kind of documented shape; I'm not hacking on Xen by any stretch of the imagination! Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: People seem to think virtualisation is virtualisation. It isn't. It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen solves a certain set of virtualisation problems. Could you please share 'your insight' on the 'set of virtualization problems' that Xen solves ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
2009/5/20 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: Could you please share 'your insight' on the 'set of virtualization problems' that Xen solves ? Xen lets you run multiple versions of modified OSes on the same box. Each OS for the most part can treat its small pool of resources as its own. It hides the underlying hardware from the virtual domain (although its apparently quite popular to break out bits of hardware to appear in the virtual domain.) The Xen paravirtualisation stuff in -theory- should be more lightweight than full hardware virtualisation and it should perform better. In practice? That's very much workload dependant. Xen also lets you write other OSes without needing to care about the hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen. He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of the underlying hardware. That really hasn't been exploited to its full potential though. Adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment together. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery Notable bits: pygrub works. :) Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what is and isn't supported at this time. Adrian 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment together. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery Notable bits: pygrub works. :) Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what is and isn't supported at this time. Adrian 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment together. http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery Notable bits: pygrub works. :) Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? Hi Adrian: Thank you for the clarification about no dom0 support in FreeBSD 8.x as of now. Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he was busy. i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the following: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? Thank you for your time. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD and Xen in paravirtualized mode
Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen in paravirtualized mode? Imagine the increase in ISPs being able to offer FreeBSD to its customers. I just got my heart broken today: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3191/ -- http://www.myspace.com/soultanisyourfriend ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and Xen in paravirtualized mode
Redd Vinylene wrote: Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen in paravirtualized mode? Imagine the increase in ISPs being able to offer FreeBSD to its customers. I just got my heart broken today: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3191/ Perhaps you could help fund the development of FreeBSD support for Xen? AFAIK lack of funding is what's keeping the development slow, though it does go on: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FreeBSD and Xen in paravirtualized mode
see http://www.rootbsd.net slicehost is uhmmm well i wount comment. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen in paravirtualized mode? Imagine the increase in ISPs being able to offer FreeBSD to its customers. I just got my heart broken today: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3191/ Perhaps you could help fund the development of FreeBSD support for Xen? AFAIK lack of funding is what's keeping the development slow, though it does go on: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL
Thanks mate, If i need that FS files, i can give you a ftp accunt. BTW, My XEN server is installed on Fedora 8.0. And i need 3 FreeBSD as a guest OS for production. That servers will be a qmail cluster with 2 qmail/vpopmail and a NFS storage server for mail servers. Can you tell me your opinion about this condition ? Thanks again. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Outback Dingo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: heres three kernels working and my config, i also have 4, 8 and 16GB file systems ready to roll, compressed they run 70+Megs each, if you want them i need a place to drop em, good luck though, paravirtualized is good for maybe light dev work, not production, hypervised under linux KVM both 7 and CURRENT work fine On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Cagri Ersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi list, I want to install a FreeBSD 7.0 on a XEN Server as (para-virtualize) domU. There is an installation document on FreeBSD handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html) However, the link is broken on the page which is for downloading the kernel file. So, where can i get that file ? Thanks for help. -- Cagri Ersen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cagri Ersen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL
I would only attempot this in Hypervisor mode where FreeBSD runs fine stock I dont think paravirtualized XEN FreeBSD instances are ready for production. Though I can assure you running FreeBSD 7 and CUURENt under linux KVM works fine, i have 13 hosts on two HVM capable systems under Ubuntu On Monday 11 August 2008 14:04:32 Cagri Ersen wrote: Thanks mate, If i need that FS files, i can give you a ftp accunt. BTW, My XEN server is installed on Fedora 8.0. And i need 3 FreeBSD as a guest OS for production. That servers will be a qmail cluster with 2 qmail/vpopmail and a NFS storage server for mail servers. Can you tell me your opinion about this condition ? Thanks again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL
Hi list, I want to install a FreeBSD 7.0 on a XEN Server as (para-virtualize) domU. There is an installation document on FreeBSD handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html) However, the link is broken on the page which is for downloading the kernel file. So, where can i get that file ? Thanks for help. -- Cagri Ersen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL
Hi list, I want to install a FreeBSD 7.0 on a XEN Server as (para-virtualize) domU. There is an installation document on FreeBSD handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html) However, the link is broken on the page which is for downloading the kernel file. So, where can i get that file ? Yesterday I asked for an explanation about a howto to build a XEN kernel file. This would be better because with an explanation noone needs a download address anymore. Unfortunately noone answered. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD on xen?
Hi! Is anybody successfully running FreeBSD on xen? xen docs doesn't talk about support for FreeBSD.. Only Linux and Windows! The doc says the Guest operating system must be aware on running virtualized! Does FreeBSD supports it? What if the HW supports Intel's VT / AMD's AMD-V ? Will this make it possible to have FreeBDS as a Guest OS? Any comment welcome. Thank you. Best regards. -- Robi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on xen?
xen docs doesn't talk about support for FreeBSD.. Only Linux and Windows! The doc says the Guest operating system must be aware on running virtualized! Does FreeBSD supports it? Have you looked at this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Hope it helps, Sebastien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on xen?
Well ... depends on your needs Yes you can install FreeBSD 7 as a DomU, Ive done so under Debian and Ubuntu server I have 10 FreeBSD 7/8 DomUs running under XEN 3.1.2 Usability is somewhat questionable, though Ive had recently some better stability for light work compiling world/kernel is still a bit iffy with GCC core dumps adding ports is doable, light load is doable, networking bridged appears ok booting a DomU can also sometimes hang ( frequest) when using the -c flag useable, yes to a degree... heavy productions work... No, definatley not at this time rumour says XEN HVM Hypervisor and KVM ( linux) both show riunning freebsd on virtualized platforms to be more stable and usable On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xen docs doesn't talk about support for FreeBSD.. Only Linux and Windows! The doc says the Guest operating system must be aware on running virtualized! Does FreeBSD supports it? Have you looked at this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Hope it helps, Sebastien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
