Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Julian Stecklina
Kip Macy 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 personalities were a p

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Kip Macy
> 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]

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Julian Stecklina
Peter Jeremy writes: > On 2009-May-20 08:30:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd 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

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Michael David Crawford
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 coup

Re: We'd like to help with Xen

2009-05-22 Thread Michael David Crawford
Michael David Crawford wrote: Prgmr.com, Inc. (http://prgmr.com/) is a Xen-based Virtual Private Server hosting service. We presently offer Linux and NetBSD DomUs, and would like to offer FreeBSD as well. I've been asked to help get FreeBSD to work under Xen. My understanding is that FreeBS