For working on the FreeBSD DomU, what should we use for the Xen kernel
and the Dom0?
Most people use Linux for Dom0 I think, but I understand you can also
use Solaris.
I was running the bleeding edge sources for a while, and I was able to
get them to work, but not well. I eventually abandon
I'd suggest "use whatever works". I use Centos 5.x since they use the
latest "stable" xen patched kernel but its quite out of date.
Adrian
2009/8/29 Michael David Crawford :
> For working on the FreeBSD DomU, what should we use for the Xen kernel and
> the Dom0?
>
> Most people use Linux for Dom
The Xen kernel sources seem to be kept in both Mercurial and Git
repositories. I've never been real clear as to which one I should use.
If I want to use the development sources, but not the raw, seething,
bleeding edge, which repository do I use? Can you supply an example
checkout command li
Just don't dick around with that stuff unless you're an actual developer! :)
stick to a distribution you get support from. I'd suggest CentOS.
Centos/redhat are at least caring about Xen PVM/HVM support. Ubuntu
for example seems to really only care about KVM these days. No idea
about the rest.
Adrian Chadd writes:
> I'd suggest "use whatever works". I use Centos 5.x since they use the
> latest "stable" xen patched kernel but its quite out of date.
If you want to make FreeBSD also run under the 3.0.3/3.1 hypervisor that
CentOS/RHEL use, that's great (I think ec2 uses the RHEL/CentOS f
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Just don't dick around with that stuff unless you're an actual developer! :)
stick to a distribution you get support from. I'd suggest CentOS.
I'm concerned that the FreeBSD support might need patches made to the
Xen kernel or to the various Dom0s.
If that were the case,
The -head xen stuff I was testing worked fine with the out-of-box Xen
hypervisor shipped with CentOS 5.3.
That is what I'm using to do development against at the moment.
Adrian
2009/8/29 Michael David Crawford :
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> Just don't dick around with that stuff unless you're an
> I started with FreeBSD Jails, and moved to NetBSD/xen2, and only left
> because of the ram limit. Now that NetBSD 5 is out, I think it's time
> for me to switch back.
what stops me from that path is that disk pool flexibility is a bit
limited on netbsd. zfs or lvm let me slop disk space to do
I'd -love- to dedicate some clock cycles to writing up a full-featured
LVM geom module.
Sigh. :)
adrian
2009/8/30 Randy Bush :
>> I started with FreeBSD Jails, and moved to NetBSD/xen2, and only left
>> because of the ram limit. Now that NetBSD 5 is out, I think it's time
>> for me to switch
Randy Bush writes:
> > I started with FreeBSD Jails, and moved to NetBSD/xen2, and only left
> > because of the ram limit. Now that NetBSD 5 is out, I think it's time
> > for me to switch back.
>
> what stops me from that path is that disk pool flexibility is a bit
> limited on netbsd. zfs or
> what about the tap: driver and friends? qcow:?(these are issues
> I will need to figure out) LVM snapshots are so slow that I find them
> unsuable, so I'm not really losing much by moving to the tap: driver
> (granted, I am pushing my disks to the limit. lvm snapshots work fine if
> your
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