Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
2009/5/20 Saifi Khan : > 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 hardw

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Saifi Khan
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 virtu

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : >  . 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

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : >  . 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. >  .