From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 19 09:46:14 2009 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 D527E106566B for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 09:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifi.khan@twincling.org) Received: from s217.sureserver.com (s217.sureserver.com [203.194.200.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B8D8FC1A for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 09:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifi.khan@twincling.org) Received: (qmail 28350 invoked by uid 1002); 19 May 2009 09:46:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.8?) (saifi.khan@twincling.org@59.92.196.6) by s217.sureserver.com with ESMTPA; 19 May 2009 09:46:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:18:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Saifi Khan X-X-Sender: saifi@localhost To: Scott Bennett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200905190915.n4J9FG7p007743@mp.cs.niu.edu> Message-ID: References: <200905190915.n4J9FG7p007743@mp.cs.niu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Subject: Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes 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: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:46:15 -0000 On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] > On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Saifi Khan > wrote: > >On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what > >> is and isn't supported at this time. > >> > >> Adrian > >> > >> 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : > >> > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> > > >> >> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > >> >> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > >> >> together. > >> >> > >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > >> >> > >> >> Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > >> >> > >> >> Adrian > >> > > >> > Hi: > >> > > >> > What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen > >> > 3.3.x ? > >> > > >> > My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified > >> > (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 > >> > box. > >> > > >> > Any pointers or observations ? > >> > > > > >Hi Adrian: > > > >Thank you for the clarification about "no dom0 support in > >FreeBSD 8.x as of now". > > > >Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact > >dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he > >was busy. > > > >i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the > >following: > > > > . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some > > point in time or would be happy to be domU ? > > > > . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the > > slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting > > extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a > > entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? > > > > . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation > > would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? > > > If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and > not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last > week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package. The FreeBSD port is being beta- > tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well > already. My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports > tree fairly soon. > What i intend to do is this: 1. capability to run FreeBSD as dom0 with Xen. 2. setup and run Eucalyptus on FreeBSD/dom0 3. run SaaS (storage as a service) solutions leveraged on BSD. 4. develop VMM orchestration solution. 5. Package the entire stuff. 6. Interested folks can build services/solutions on top of this infrastructure. Legal 1-6 is all Open Source some BSD 2.0 and most of it ASL 2.0. Open Source infrastructure leveraged on FreeBSD powers the cloud ! thanks Saifi.