VIMAGE and jails are OS-level virtualization, orthogonal to Xen.
I want to run Xen so I can build and test Ogg Frog[1] on each of the
target platforms I plan to support. I built a fancy Xeon box so that I
could even build and test on all the platforms simultaneously.
I also operate a
You can use microkernels[1] for almost the same thing. It's what we do
at Technische Universität Dresden.
Regards,
--
Julian Stecklina
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge
Footnotes:
[1] There is a
Peter Jeremy peterjer...@optushome.com.au writes:
On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Xen also lets you write other OSes without needing to care about the
hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen.
He can then run it on any and all Xen
Kip Macy km...@freebsd.org writes:
Based on L4Linux, I believe that the amount of work required for
porting a PV OS is much less than creating a new personality for a
microkernel. That said, isn't a hypervisor really a microkernel with
device and virtual memory abstraction API?
OS
On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Xen also lets you write other OSes without needing to care about the
hardware. One of my friends bootstrapped a toy OS of his inside Xen.
He can then run it on any and all Xen boxes, unmodified, regardless of
the underlying
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:
. is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
point in time or would be happy to be domU ?
I cannot speak for the developers but at BSDCan it was stated that
dom0 would be a large chunk of job that deserves funding. The
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan
saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote:
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan
saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote:
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan
saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:
. is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
point in time or would be happy to be domU ?
If Kip (and other Xen-clueful people get funding) - and there's time -
then I bet so.
. there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
People seem to think virtualisation is virtualisation. It isn't.
It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen
solves a certain set of virtualisation problems.
Could you please share 'your insight' on the
'set of
2009/5/20 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:
Could you please share 'your insight' on the
'set of virtualization problems' that Xen solves ?
Xen lets you run multiple versions of modified OSes on the same box.
Each OS for the most part can treat its small pool of resources as its
own. It
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my
experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment
together.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery
Notable bits: pygrub works. :)
Adrian
Hi:
What is the
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what
is and isn't supported at this time.
Adrian
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I've started documenting
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what
is and isn't supported at this time.
Adrian
2009/5/19 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org:
On Mon, 18 May 2009,
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