[Xen-users] Re: Anyone got a generic running FreeBSD 6.1 xenable, hmvloadable, image file ...

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>]

Henning Sprang wrote:
> On 12/18/06, Edward Ing <inge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ... that he/she would like to share. 5G bit size at most.
> >
> > Hey, this could be a business -- preparing generic xenable HVMLoadable
> > images and selling them!
> If you look at the archives of this list you might realize that any
> bsd in hvm mode is currently not possible. nobody heard of anybody
> getting it done yet - I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
>
> Not much to gain from this business without getting very deep into the
> xen sources code.
> But when these changes are made, you have to provide them as free
> software, and nobody will be interested in buying ready made images
> because they can install themselves.
>
> Still, if you wanna do it, there are probably quite some people who'd
> invest some bucks to sponsor you working on it...
>
> Even pv mode seems only work with xen 3.0.2, but all this does not
> sound production-ready.
After buying a big new hvm server just for virtualization, and three 
weeks of effort with minimal success, one of my friends dropped by with 
a small laptop running a non-hvm CPU, Windows and VMware, and installed 
all the stuff I have been trying, all the stuff others here have been 
trying, and had zero issues.
I think "does not sound production-ready" about covers the current 
status. Xen is great at running lots of little Linux server images, but 
less able to run other operating systems.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


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