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-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-xen-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-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-xen-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-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
