Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:46:57 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@shaneware.biz> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of Xen/Dom0 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CADGWnjWOJaWeaJ-55TeD-fj9dkdrK%2Bz0Vjdx2dcijEb6Nibg%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5151C85D.4050702@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <CADGWnjW9LaLG%2BM8=zFqoTho=zQNictGs7DVMGKZOCGy73O5=Ng@mail.gmail.com> <5151C85D.4050702@ShaneWare.Biz>
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@shaneware.biz> wrote: > On 26/03/2013 23:30, C. P. Ghost wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm wondering if there's been some progress on the Xen/Dom0 >> front recently. The Wiki >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/**FreeBSD/Xen<https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen>; >> still doesn't show any improvements in this area, but it may >> also be outdated (?). >> > > Not sure about any Xen/Dom0 work but I get the impression that bhyve is > the focus of freebsd development in that area. > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve > > Interesting! Thanks for the hint. However, that's not what I'm looking for. I'm interested in running a type-1 Hypervisor with FreeBSD as the host (as in Xen/Dom0) and all kinds of DomU clients (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, etc.). The host machine will be a server with at least 90 GB RAM (later up to 512 GB) and plenty of SAS/SATA drives. Since I'm considering running ZFS on those drives at the host level, and serving the clients on top of that, FreeBSD as Xen/Dom0 seems like a good idea... if it was already available. However, I'm not sure yet if ZFS would be advisable for this scenario or if it would kill performance. If not, I wouldn't mind running Xen/Dom0 with some lightweight Linux distro as host, and FreeBSD as DomU. It wouldn't be as nice as a native FreeBSD setup, but it's better than nothing. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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