From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 26 17:46:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D85911C for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-la0-x22d.google.com (mail-la0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE00EFD for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id er20so13928815lab.4 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:46:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=79YtBFPetAXvWdvzWnGUFBPC0akJLGdCXkzJp+M7kLM=; b=EZ8pP2t3MZ1PTaKiFpzOztDHhppyl/3pD8cNYHMcpXbJyX9840i8bB1smPd69m73dc pezgv7EpCFnA/SEM5zlyaCSjifxYeR8H95eGHHIZ3wPbBwufkLJDr5RJ0okUwsUTAIbf D1hIDzdRy8ZLX3aF9GWt357O9sXOJKRTqbgHByMFtfLLHcPuu9s+jHN3XbTwxOmcerrO s2WA2r+1gcDcuXj4YvBhwkWEGTnZ0U49/4xMs7w9SjCvA950Lyyuk8Kcyc3mDMLIn5+I KVq10SlYPyTRbBPqWMenC3VnIQLJevqHI6yPMiOwZ2TDmiqp5/yh1aDtxTPt+d2xwdy4 tzEg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.8.9 with SMTP id n9mr8622797lba.71.1364320017668; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.8.40 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:46:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.188.191] In-Reply-To: <5151C85D.4050702@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <5151C85D.4050702@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:46:57 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Status of Xen/Dom0 on FreeBSD? From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Shane Ambler X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkpszA3a26eEbdYYx7LRrDg8qabcfSWBoJ1qeaOIPLbJum4hExBNo9vM531P2cXzXFBNkBk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:46:59 -0000 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 26/03/2013 23:30, C. P. Ghost wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm wondering if there's been some progress on the Xen/Dom0 >> front recently. The Wiki >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/**FreeBSD/Xen >> still doesn't show any improvements in this area, but it may >> also be outdated (?). >> > > Not sure about any Xen/Dom0 work but I get the impression that bhyve is > the focus of freebsd development in that area. > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve > > Interesting! Thanks for the hint. However, that's not what I'm looking for. I'm interested in running a type-1 Hypervisor with FreeBSD as the host (as in Xen/Dom0) and all kinds of DomU clients (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, etc.). The host machine will be a server with at least 90 GB RAM (later up to 512 GB) and plenty of SAS/SATA drives. Since I'm considering running ZFS on those drives at the host level, and serving the clients on top of that, FreeBSD as Xen/Dom0 seems like a good idea... if it was already available. However, I'm not sure yet if ZFS would be advisable for this scenario or if it would kill performance. If not, I wouldn't mind running Xen/Dom0 with some lightweight Linux distro as host, and FreeBSD as DomU. It wouldn't be as nice as a native FreeBSD setup, but it's better than nothing. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/