From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 22:57:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A63B16A469 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:57:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2C913C4B0 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:57:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so1116403uge for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:57:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=SAskAyPepKN7h3ZY4YlcV/QYkCVxWVWJZ2R1jyiC7ljTFDehcrYRoIqk66cRnCwdFVU4iTPicZ96hfBPQomtjr9A5NkXKYh1I3oEGmQynCpMOFO1PINxxKGxrOudsOJOfAdCkmwHSnbrTVVn7UPiq7VfExt3MuhZcfIIuI27nno= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=HDWR3wcGSfDZrfLluFUcECeR4ycBj1hGCJGyaMYLlG06GbZKJobp4z4jY3KZIBrU4Ii7MdmRt1Vz3ndENkA8/IndD0wdOC0j5OMHm9GdggRRYveYduSYMqDrm8nFqcKyh9tlO8A/lQOXGBSpznUVxz/lnBWCYng5u68wVmall9M= Received: by 10.66.250.9 with SMTP id x9mr4754379ugh.1185749870372; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k10sm2150689nfh.2007.07.29.15.57.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46AD1B6B.2010605@crackmonkey.us> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:57:47 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Grant References: <62b856460707290755s1225eaffy951caa9c81857de3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <62b856460707290755s1225eaffy951caa9c81857de3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam J Richardson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: XEN questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:57:52 -0000 Michael Grant wrote: > Does XEN work with freebsd 6.x? > > Does one run XEN inside of freebsd and then VMs inside that, or does > one run XEN on the bare hardware and then run freebsd inside that? If > I've already got freebsd running on my box, do I have to reload it > from scratch or is there a way I can virtualize what I already have > runing? > > Michael Grant Hi Michael, Afraid I don't have any experience of Xen, but I know Qemu works well and I know for sure VMware has a cloning tool that does exactly what you're after. Although after trying it once it occurred to me to wonder why I'd want to run an identical copy of my laptop on my laptop... :P If Xen doesn't have a cloning tool, perhaps you can use the VMware cloning tool and tweak the clone to run under Xen? After all, VMware can use Qemu disks and Virtual PC can use VMware disks, so it might work. HtH, Adam J Richardson