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Date:      Tue, 19 May 2009 10:44:31 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
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2009/5/19 Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>:

> =C2=A0. is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
> =C2=A0 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
developers are interested.

> =C2=A0. there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the
> =C2=A0 slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting
> =C2=A0 extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a
> =C2=A0 entirely different approach which does not use Xen ?

VIMAGE and jails are OS-level virtualization, orthogonal to Xen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization

> =C2=A0. is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation
> =C2=A0 would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ?

Probably not - the systems are too different now.



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