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> In-Reply-To: <3DE2DD7E-8C5C-4291-A3BA-854625F11B0F@ultra-secure.de> References: <3DE2DD7E-8C5C-4291-A3BA-854625F11B0F@ultra-secure.de>
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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