Re: Need FreeBSD 7.0 XEN-KERNEL

2008-08-10 Thread Gueven Bay
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

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 on Xen

2008-08-09 Thread Gueven Bay
2008/8/8 Elwell, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry about the premature sending. Here is the complete question: Greetings, I am attempting to follow the directions located at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html and load a FreeBSD Xen DomU instance. The

Re: X screen film recording

2007-11-07 Thread Gueven Bay
2007/11/7, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I once used vnc2swf on Linux. It looks like it's in ports, so I'm well i would like to convert OUT OF flash movie to something like animated gif or just frames. vnc2pnm or vnc2avi or vnc2gif would be nice. but there's no such things. You

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Gueven Bay
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:33 +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-17 Thread Gueven Bay
2007/10/17, Lisandro Grullon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I disable ipv6 in my browser, if you can elaborate on that it would be helpful. Thanks in advance.Lisandro Please provide both exmaples for IE and Firefox. I don't know how to disable IPv6 in IE. But for Firefox: 1) you type

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Gueven Bay
2007/10/17, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share holders not to mention that microsoft regularly has delays like year. happy, FreeBSD can afford to wait until the programmers are convinced that their work is good

Re: Ports vs Pkgsrc

2007-10-11 Thread Gueven Bay
2007/10/12, Mak Kolybabi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would anyone be able to either offer a link, or explain the differences between NetBSD/DragonflyBSD's pkgsrc and FreeBSD/OpenBSD's ports systems? Google searches such as 'pkgsrc vs ports' have yielded nothing satisfying. -- Matthew Anthony

Re: Philosophy of default pkg_add -r PACKAGESITE?

2007-09-04 Thread Gueven Bay
I'm curious, why does pkg_add -r point to the release snapshot of ports by default? Is the idea that a release is well-tested and that any deviation from that (even security or bug-fix changes) is an unknown that new users need to be shielded against when grabbing packages with pkg_add

How can I make a domU image like that in the handbook ?

2007-06-29 Thread Gueven Bay
Hello, In the handbook in chapter 21.2.2.2 ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html) the reader has to download an image file for the domU (the virtual guest system of Xen). I want to know the recipe how to produce such an image file. Is this image

The kernel for the domU and its (non-existent) config

2007-06-29 Thread Gueven Bay
I asked in my last mail to this mailing-list how I can make a FreeBSD image for Xen. But I also discovered that the kernel you have to use following the Handbook (chapter 21.2.2.2) is a binary-blob. Nowhere do you find a config file so that you can make an own kernel if you want. I looked at