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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:43:03 +1100
From:      Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>
To:        Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running FreeBSD 10.1 on Xen?
Message-ID:  <CAKYr3zxpj-N56erJK7Up%2BHzBFQnVNXgZrP9GYaZ-ujxdmgPZ6Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are thinking about running FreeBSD 10.1 on Cloudstack, with Xen
> virtualization for a customer in a =E2=80=9Emanaged hosting=E2=80=9C type=
 of setup - we are
> administrators of  both Xen and FreeBSD on our own premises).
> The customer is currently running a managed multi-server FreeBSD 10.1
> setup on bare metal and is overall quite satisfied but would like to have
> more flexibility.
>
> The handbook mentions nothing about this, there are two different wiki
> pages about Xen:
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/XenNG
> (which I assume is the =E2=80=9Eright=E2=80=9C one nowadays)
> and
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
>
> I=E2=80=99m really more a FreeBSD-guy than a Xen guy but I=E2=80=99m wond=
ering what the
> =E2=80=9Eoptimal=E2=80=9C configuration for such a setup is?
>
> I see that the XENHVM driver is thankfully already included in GENERIC.
> The man-page also mentions to include:
>
>            options NO_ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES
>            options NO_ADAPTIVE_RWLOCKS
>            options NO_ADAPTIVE_SX
>
> Is this still necessary with 10.1?
>
> I want to continue using freebsd-update(8) with binary patches provided b=
y
> the FreeBSD-project - under almost all conditions.
>
> Will there be any improvements in 10.2 that are worth waiting for?
> Or does one need to track current to make the most of FreeBSD under Xen?
>
> Looking at bugzilla, there is bug:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D197344
>
> Does that also apply when a VM doesn=E2=80=99t do routing?
>
>
Short answer, it works, ive launched images based on FreeBSD 10.1, and
CURRENT with CloudStack, and OpenStack, using xen 4.4, and XenServer using
the stock generic kernel for install...


>
>
> Rainer
>
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