From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 15:40:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF31B1065673 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@egsner.cirr.com) Received: from egsner.cirr.com (egsner.cirr.com [IPv6:2620:0:de0::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733938FC14 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from egsner.cirr.com (IDENT:eric@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egsner.cirr.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/$Revision: 1.34 $) with ESMTP id q1NFao3N022979; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:36:50 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <201202231536.q1NFao3N022979@egsner.cirr.com> From: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) To: Scott Strobele In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:41:35 PST." Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:36:50 -0600 Sender: eric@cirr.com X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (egsner.cirr.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:36:51 -0600 (CST) Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , port-xen@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to get "a" version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit) X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:40:09 -0000 Scott Strobele writes: - Hi Y'all, - I am digging through the site, and getting ready to call it a day, I will - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said - it was here if it was anywhere. Another Ian named this location as well. - I just have preferences of stability for a mysql database that will be - large, and need to scale as far as size of cluster, it should be a lot of - fun. - I have used BSD before, and am not finding what I am looking for yet. NetBSD has DOM0 and DOMU support in NetBSD 4.*, 5.* and 6.0_BETA. I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've considered (I've got a couple of boxes that won't boot a generic kernel, but run fine with a xen hypervisor abstracting the hardware.) -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com Server (n.), 1. Large, extremely expensive machine that goes "Ping!". Measuring at least 25 cubic feet, heavy, bulky and giving of more heat than a nuclear power plant. It's big, it's bad, it's beautiful and makes it pretty clear what happened to this year's IT-budget.