On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Rainer Duffner <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > we are thinking about running FreeBSD 10.1 on Cloudstack, with Xen > virtualization for a customer in a „managed hosting“ type of setup - we are > administrators of both Xen and FreeBSD on our own premises). > The customer is currently running a managed multi-server FreeBSD 10.1 > setup on bare metal and is overall quite satisfied but would like to have > more flexibility. > > The handbook mentions nothing about this, there are two different wiki > pages about Xen: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/XenNG > (which I assume is the „right“ one nowadays) > and > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen > > I’m really more a FreeBSD-guy than a Xen guy but I’m wondering what the > „optimal“ configuration for such a setup is? > > I see that the XENHVM driver is thankfully already included in GENERIC. > The man-page also mentions to include: > > options NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES > options NO_ADAPTIVE_RWLOCKS > options NO_ADAPTIVE_SX > > Is this still necessary with 10.1? > > I want to continue using freebsd-update(8) with binary patches provided by > the FreeBSD-project - under almost all conditions. > > Will there be any improvements in 10.2 that are worth waiting for? > Or does one need to track current to make the most of FreeBSD under Xen? > > Looking at bugzilla, there is bug: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197344 > > Does that also apply when a VM doesn’t do routing? > > Short answer, it works, ive launched images based on FreeBSD 10.1, and CURRENT with CloudStack, and OpenStack, using xen 4.4, and XenServer using the stock generic kernel for install... > > > Rainer > > _______________________________________________ > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"