From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 18:52:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFDAE41 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 18:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x236.google.com (mail-ob0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDC11DE for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 18:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id va2so1577174obc.13 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=VsOMcBEuU4NBJfMj37TO5W4JvOgTPCWunWAjbXkheGQ=; b=OzerAC36W7ED7+yB/6grLC95VX50fWbRr9CfchQs9OVpVTAaStP4RQzzHbkqmokANt gcPi3CUnTPFEGL2nuzAweprlImmm9bnPYlnwh7WoCP2KRj1csxTIlcZDhPfRZeDeWCYC PJriCbBWftjapjhdeLWGPNuMnyM78lTO5IcH9wE3Jb6AGIUNTvvWv8PwxhgHwi9NkfVa iz/Ap2OdPnqzVcjJGJIjZeVr+yHgMwZJvQ91aIEKv/lr3pOjYHsMGdaPogGksHjJoYW7 2wVfIHIHTJBXnB6MUP1gdJ8VE4KWAyH+0cqANJbtmrft057OPLS0h60l/VlVa3wXbzFm etdg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.137.198 with SMTP id qk6mr13734947oeb.18.1368471173412; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.46.167 with HTTP; Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> References: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:52:53 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing From: Michael Sierchio To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=E9?= X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkKIoSKC7lNDYL2DSLW+1fK2rd6SugMPrgh5PFCuLdpp/Ux1D2Yo0shU5KDOVQpK8ddxGeo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , xen-devel , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" , "xen-users@lists.xen.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:52:54 -0000 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Roger Pau Monn=E9 wrote: > Hello, > > Recently Justin T Gibbs, Will Andrews and myself have been working on > improving the Xen support in FreeBSD. The main goal of this was to bring > full PVHVM support to FreeBSD, right now FreeBSD is only using PV > interfaces for disk and network interfaces when running as a HVM guest. .= .. I think should be encouraged. We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute instances. Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM available for all instance types before this happens? - M