Status of FreeBSD port of Xen

Status of FreeBSD port of Xen

[Dave Feustel]

As far as I can tell, there is no FreeBSD mailing list for
the FreeBSD port of Xen, which I believe is actually underway. 
Can someone on this list bring me up to date as to the status 
of the FreeBSD port of Xen?

Thanks,

Dave Feustel 
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Re: Status of FreeBSD port of Xen

[Mogens Valentin]

Dave Feustel wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there is no FreeBSD mailing list for
> the FreeBSD port of Xen, which I believe is actually underway. 
> Can someone on this list bring me up to date as to the status 
> of the FreeBSD port of Xen?


Kip Macy wrote here on 090106:

FreeBSD is now, with the notable exception of suspend, a stable 
functionally complete domU on xen 3.0. I am currently in the process of 
adding dom0 support. Suspend support will be turned on as soon as the 
xenbus + newbus integration work goes in.

It is unclear how much sense it would make to post a sparse tree as this 
is all being done in -CURRENT (the development branch). However, as soon 
as dom0 support goes in, xen support will be pulled into RELENG_6, and 
in all likelihood full xen support will go out with the release of 
FreeBSD 6.1.

The curious can check out:
http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/STATUS

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Kind regards,
Mogens Valentin

Re: Status of FreeBSD port of Xen

[M.A. Williamson]

>As far as I can tell, there is no FreeBSD mailing list for
>the FreeBSD port of Xen, which I believe is actually underway. 
>Can someone on this list bring me up to date as to the status 
>of the FreeBSD port of Xen?

IIRC, FreeBSD 7.0 (the development branch) will work on Xen 3.0. There's 
indended to be a backport into the 6.x series but I think that's waiting on 
better integration of XenBus into NewBus (or something like that).

There's also partial support for dom0 / driver domains in there.

http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/

Cheers,
Markn