Re: HOWTO: xen tools within FreeBSD domU

2011-01-31 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:47:25 + (UTC) Janne Snabb sn...@epipe.com wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Nick Sayer wrote: If no one else is working on it, I might take a cut at a xen-domU-tools port that does what that page lists. I say give it a shot. It would be useful. Send me a message if

Re: HOWTO: xen tools within FreeBSD domU

2011-01-30 Thread David Markey
Sweet, from this it should be possible to get XenServer tool to work. Thanks! On 30 January 2011 14:16, Janne Snabb sn...@epipe.com wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Janne Snabb wrote: Prerequisites: gmake, XENHVM or XEN kernel (GENERIC will not work) Python is also needed. I put a copy of

Re: HOWTO: xen tools within FreeBSD domU

2011-01-30 Thread Nick Sayer
This works exactly as described. I sort of assume that the xen developers have taken great pains to insure that there are no exploits through the xenstore to escape from a domU to either a neighbor or the dom0. Nevertheless, I did open a ticket to my provider to let them know that I built this

Re: HOWTO: xen tools within FreeBSD domU

2011-01-30 Thread Nick Sayer
The web page previously referenced says in part: Usage - Set required environment variable: export XENSTORED_PATH=/dev/xen/xenstore (Alternatively you could patch tools/xenstore/xs_lib.c function xs_domain_dev() before compiling.) A patch to do this is: --- xs_lib.c.orig

Re: HOWTO: xen tools within FreeBSD domU

2011-01-30 Thread Janne Snabb
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Nick Sayer wrote: If no one else is working on it, I might take a cut at a xen-domU-tools port that does what that page lists. I say give it a shot. It would be useful. Send me a message if you wish me to check/review the port before you send-pr it. In addition to