Re: Trying to get a version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit)
Christoph Egger writes: - On 02/24/12 10:00, Roger Pau Monné wrote: - 2012/2/23 Eric Schnoebelene...@cirr.com: - I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN - hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've - considered [...] - - I would also like to do something similar with NetBSD, but that will - require some work. - - Zafer made some NetBSD 5 LiveCDs which can boot Xen Dom0 out of the box. I don't think I ever saw those. I'd love to have the scripts, or at least the process he used to generate the LiveCD's.. I'd want to integrate them into the standard build sequence, as much as possible. Zafar?? Thanks, Eric -- Eric Schnoebelene...@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com Don't ever speak more clearly than you think... -- Neils Bohr ___ 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: Trying to get a version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit)
2012/2/23 Eric Schnoebelen e...@cirr.com: Scott Strobele writes: - Hi Y'all, - I am digging through the site, and getting ready to call it a day, I will - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said - it was here if it was anywhere. Another Ian named this location as well. - I just have preferences of stability for a mysql database that will be - large, and need to scale as far as size of cluster, it should be a lot of - fun. - I have used BSD before, and am not finding what I am looking for yet. NetBSD has DOM0 and DOMU support in NetBSD 4.*, 5.* and 6.0_BETA. I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've considered (I've got a couple of boxes that won't boot a generic kernel, but run fine with a xen hypervisor abstracting the hardware.) I've done something similar, but with a Linux distribution (Alpine Linux), you can find more info here: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-01/msg00092.html It's a very minimal Dom0 LiveCD (80MB), that contains a very basic Linux system (uclibc + busybox) plus the necessary tools to run xen. It's quite fast, because it runs from ram. It's still a beta test, but we will probably start releasing this Dom0 LiveCDs with each Alpine Linux release starting from the 1st of April (approximate scheduled release date of the next version). I would also like to do something similar with NetBSD, but that will require some work. Regards, Roger. -- Eric Schnoebelen e...@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com Server (n.), 1. Large, extremely expensive machine that goes Ping!. Measuring at least 25 cubic feet, heavy, bulky and giving of more heat than a nuclear power plant. It's big, it's bad, it's beautiful and makes it pretty clear what happened to this year's IT-budget. ___ 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: Trying to get a version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit)
On 02/24/12 10:00, Roger Pau Monné wrote: 2012/2/23 Eric Schnoebelene...@cirr.com: Scott Strobele writes: - Hi Y'all, - I am digging through the site, and getting ready to call it a day, I will - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said - it was here if it was anywhere. Another Ian named this location as well. - I just have preferences of stability for a mysql database that will be - large, and need to scale as far as size of cluster, it should be a lot of - fun. - I have used BSD before, and am not finding what I am looking for yet. NetBSD has DOM0 and DOMU support in NetBSD 4.*, 5.* and 6.0_BETA. I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've considered (I've got a couple of boxes that won't boot a generic kernel, but run fine with a xen hypervisor abstracting the hardware.) I've done something similar, but with a Linux distribution (Alpine Linux), you can find more info here: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-01/msg00092.html It's a very minimal Dom0 LiveCD (80MB), that contains a very basic Linux system (uclibc + busybox) plus the necessary tools to run xen. It's quite fast, because it runs from ram. It's still a beta test, but we will probably start releasing this Dom0 LiveCDs with each Alpine Linux release starting from the 1st of April (approximate scheduled release date of the next version). I would also like to do something similar with NetBSD, but that will require some work. Zafer made some NetBSD 5 LiveCDs which can boot Xen Dom0 out of the box. Christoph ___ 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: Trying to get a version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit)
Scott Strobele writes: - Hi Y'all, - I am digging through the site, and getting ready to call it a day, I will - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said - it was here if it was anywhere. Another Ian named this location as well. - I just have preferences of stability for a mysql database that will be - large, and need to scale as far as size of cluster, it should be a lot of - fun. - I have used BSD before, and am not finding what I am looking for yet. NetBSD has DOM0 and DOMU support in NetBSD 4.*, 5.* and 6.0_BETA. I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've considered (I've got a couple of boxes that won't boot a generic kernel, but run fine with a xen hypervisor abstracting the hardware.) -- Eric Schnoebelene...@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com Server (n.), 1. Large, extremely expensive machine that goes Ping!. Measuring at least 25 cubic feet, heavy, bulky and giving of more heat than a nuclear power plant. It's big, it's bad, it's beautiful and makes it pretty clear what happened to this year's IT-budget. ___ 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
