On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 17:49 +0200, Erik van Westen wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Op 21-7-2017 om 16:20 schreef Ingo Schwarze: > > Hi Mike, > > > > Mike Belopuhov wrote on Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 03:14:08PM +0200: > > > >> Together with Maxim Khitrov we have figured out what needs to > >> be set for XenServer > > If XenServer were free software, i would say that the OpenBSD > > operating system should detect whether it is running under > > XenServer and then do all this automatically, by default, but ... > > > >> (that's a Citrix product based on Xen) to "recognize" > >> the OpenBSD VM and let it do things like reboot and so on. > > ... that sounds like XenServer is a commercial product, so maybe > > we don't want to bloat OpenBSD with specific code targeting it, > > certainly not with large amounts of code. If it can automatically > > be done in just a handful of lines of code, i don't feel strongly > > either way, even if XenServer is commercial. I mean, other > > virtual machine hosts are completely commercial in the first > > place (unlike Xen) and we have large amounts of code in the kernel > > specifically targeting them (unless i misunderstand). > > A quick check makes sure that XenServer is open source and not commercial. > http://xenserver.org. >
Right, thanks for correction. I apologize for being too vague and misleading Ingo, it wasn't intentional. > [quote] > > > ABOUT XENSERVER > > XenServer is the leading open source virtualization platform, powered by > the Xen Project hypervisor > <http://xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor.html> and the XAPI > toolstack <http://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html>. It is used > in the world's largest clouds and enterprises. > > Commercial support for XenServer > <https://xenserver.org/get-support.html> is available from Citrix. > [/quote] > > [snip] > > Maybe that helps. > > Regards, > > Erik
