Xen support

[Eric Masson]

"Macy, Kip" <Kip.Macy at netapp.com> writes:

Hello Kip,

> In all fairness I'd like to say that Nate put me in touch with someone
> to commit the work. At about the same time I discovered a rather
> annoying bug (since fixed), and I haven't followed back up.

Ok,

> For those who would like to try it out I just submitted a sparse tree
> patch against the development branch (xeno-unstable.bk), that I
> believe will be committed shortly.

Great.

> It and a kernel can be found at: 
> http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/5.3/050317/
> You'll find some very basic instructions for booting a FreeBSD guest
> on xen one level up.

Ok, I'll give it a shot asap

> To avoid premature enthusiasm I'd like to point out that FreeBSD is
> currently only supported as an unprivileged guest. DOM0 support is not
> that much work, it simply isn't a priority at the moment.

Ok, not really annoying, Manuel Bouyer is working on domain0 support for
NetBSD, so I won't have to install some linux on the box ;)

As my girlfriend would like me to keep the bare minimum number of
machines here, Xen is the way to run Net/Free/DFly and maybe some
dreadful Debian on a single amd64 machine.

Regarding this kind of setup, do you know if Xen could support amd64 in
domain0 and mix amd64/ia32 kernels/userlands in other domains ?

Regards.

Éric Masson

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