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Date:      Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:19:58 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        arvind viswanathan <arvind.viswanathan@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: On porting xen to Freebsd7
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On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 13:53 -0700, arvind viswanathan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The OS that I work on is a flavor of FreeBSD7 and I am working on making it
> work as a paravirtualized dom U. I was under the impression that I may have
> to port a network driver and scsi driver to my current FreeBSD version and
> I should be good to go. But that does not seem to be the case. I could not
> find any PV drivers that have to ported to FreeBSD 7.0 Most of the related
> threads started with FreeBSD8.0 or 9.0 and asked me to compile the kernel
> with special flags. I am not in a position where I can simply upgrade to
> the next FreeBSD version and evaluate xen, but I have to port the xen
> subsystem into FreeBSD 7.0 Does any one know the modules that have to be
> installed in FreeBSD7.0 to make it a PV domU. If this post does not have
> enough info I can provide more information.
> PS: would be really useful if a high level comment can also be provided.
> 
> Thanks
> Arvind
> _______________________________________________

I'd probably start with

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/stable_7_xen/

If its too far out of date, let me know and I'll update the bits that
don't work.

Sean




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