OpenBSD again

OpenBSD again

[Gabriel Gonzalez]

Hello,

  I have been looking through the mailing list archive and I have read
about ppl writing about porting OpenBSD to Xen but I don't if they
really started porting it.
  I would like trying to port OpenBSD to Xen, it is a good challenge.
If someone is already working on it I would be more than pleasure to
collaborate with.
  Thank you very much for your time.

Best wishes,

  Gabriel Gonzalez.

Re: OpenBSD again

[Mark Williamson]

>   I have been looking through the mailing list archive and I have read
> about ppl writing about porting OpenBSD to Xen but I don't if they
> really started porting it.

One or two people have expressed interest in using a port.  One or two people 
have previously said they'd help out if one was started but I don't think 
it's actually underway (not yet, anyhow).

I also checked through the OpenBSD kernel mailing lists a while ago but there 
wasn't much enthusiasm there.

For anyone starting a port, the code in the other BSD ports might be a useful 
thing to a look at, although the concensus last time this came up was that 
the BSDs have diverged too far for reusing this code to be a matter of "drop 
it in and run" in this case.

>   I would like trying to port OpenBSD to Xen, it is a good challenge.
> If someone is already working on it I would be more than pleasure to
> collaborate with.

Yup, I think it'd be a really nice thing to have, allowing OpenBSD to leverage 
device drivers of other OSes in a sandboxed fashion, and to allow other OSes 
to run OpenBSD-based services.

Another thing I'd *love* to see is a port of DragonflyBSD.  I've heard more 
positive noises about the potential to reuse code from the FreeBSD port here.

Cheers,
Mark

>   Thank you very much for your time.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>   Gabriel Gonzalez.
>
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Re: OpenBSD again

[Kip Macy]

> 
> Another thing I'd *love* to see is a port of DragonflyBSD.  I've heard more
> positive noises about the potential to reuse code from the FreeBSD port here.
>

Mark is absolutely correct. What was initially a port to DragonFly -
became the FreeBSD port because I was permitted to do a bit of the
work on employer time.
Re-purposing the FreeBSD port would for Dragonfly probably wouldn't
take much more than a dedicated week.

              -Kip