Re: BETA-1 NFS not working, Xen PV i386

2011-08-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Sean Bruno wrote: Doesn't make a lot of sense here, but building with the i386 XEN kernel config yields the following boot up in PV mode. Odd ... it looks like i386/XEN needs: options NFSCL # New Network Filesystem Client Yes -- in general, I

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: Any plans of using ZFS there? I don't know about Amazon's live disk resizing policy, but at least in our local Xen deployment of FreeBSD at Cambridge, ZFS seems like the sensible thing so that we can do live disk resizing during provision of

Patches to support (or at least make compile) Xen PV drivers on i386 HVM

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all: Something I'd like us to do for 9.0 (and maybe even 8.3) is include the Xen PV drivers in our GENERIC i386 and amd64 kernels. This will improve our just works factor running on Xen HVM by avoiding a mandatory kernel recompile to get access to PV drivers, in turn better supporting