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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:04:27 -0800
From:      Atom Powers <apowers@digipen.edu>
To:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XenTools development for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4B4B5A1B.8040401@digipen.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4B4B39A0.6080506@scsiguy.com>
References:  <32668C1E8A82284F873E8830836260571392BD1B16@office-server1.m247.local> <4B4B39A0.6080506@scsiguy.com>

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On 1/11/2010 6:45 AM, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> On 1/8/2010 1:23 AM, James Smith wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> We want to use XenServer (iscsi SAN storage) by Citrix and FreeBSD.
>> We've got a testing setup in place, so we can play around with the
>> features.  FreeBSD runs and installs quite well within this environment,
>> along with Linux distros, Windows etc.  There is something called
>> XenTools (commercial software from Citrix), amongst other things its
>> main job is to facilitate VM migration between nodes when using XenServer
>> (it is awesome, no ping drops, at worst higher latency for two pings
>> and then it's done).  This runs on Linux ... but there is no FreeBSD
>> version.
>
> Is this part of the XenServer-Essentials package?  Can you point to a
> URL that describes XenTools in more detail?
>

It is available on the installation CD, as a mountable ISO once the VM 
is installed. (Downloads for Citrix Xen are here: 
http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp )

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