Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help?

2009-08-21 Thread Luke S Crawford
here are many others willing to kick in, and I know I'd certainly be willing to do some legwork to find some of that money, I think if we had someone like Kip put a number on it, we could reach that number. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technic

Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help?

2009-08-24 Thread Luke S Crawford
etBSD Dom0s are not so popular right now. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help?

2009-08-29 Thread Luke S Crawford
Adrian Chadd writes: > I'd suggest "use whatever works". I use Centos 5.x since they use the > latest "stable" xen patched kernel but its quite out of date. If you want to make FreeBSD also run under the 3.0.3/3.1 hypervisor that CentOS/RHEL use, that's great (I think ec2 uses the RHEL/CentOS f

Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help?

2009-08-29 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > > I started with FreeBSD Jails, and moved to NetBSD/xen2, and only left > > because of the ram limit. Now that NetBSD 5 is out, I think it's time > > for me to switch back. > > what stops me from that path is that disk pool flexibility is a bit > limited on netbsd. zfs or

Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help?

2009-08-30 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Sam Fourman Jr." writes: > > what about the tap: driver and friends? qcow:?(these are issues > > I will need to figure out) LVM snapshots are so slow that I find them > > unsuable, so I'm not really losing much by moving to the tap: driver > > (granted, I am pushing my disks to the limit.

Re: FreeBSD 8 i386 vs. XenServer 5.0 on AMD Opteron 2214

2010-02-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Lars Duesing" writes: > Hi people, > > > > I try to install FreeBSD 8 in a HVM on XenServer 5.0. > > But FreeBSD would not even boot from installation media. > > It stops after showing real and avail memory. > > If I try to boot without APIC it stops after: > > MPTable: > > If I try to

Re: FreeBSD 8, PV i386 VNC fails?

2011-07-26 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:04:48PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > On 07/26/11 14:48, Sean Bruno wrote: > > Probably not doing it right. When I switched from pure HVM to PV on the > > i386 VMs in the cluster, VNC stopped working all together. Did I do it > > wrong? > > Is it possible to use PV wi