Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:07:26 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Deb Heller-Evans <deb@es.net> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit Centos5 xen kernel and creating a FreeBSD domU Message-ID: <1231945646.1172.8.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <496BC05B.2030606@es.net> References: <496BC05B.2030606@es.net>
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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:12 -0800, Deb Heller-Evans wrote: > I'm new to Xen, and have been digging around the Internet. I have a Xen > CentOS kernel installed on an Intel 64-bit system: > > Linux myhost.com 2.6.18-92.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 19:20:18 EDT 2008 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Using: > xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.9, > kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.el5 > > I need to learn FreeBSD, and so I thought I'd do it under CentOS using > Xen. My intent was to load FreeBSD 7.x as a domU, but as I perused the > Internet, I am seeing that there are issues with Intel 64-bit CentOS > systems and that the domU kernel needs to have PAE support (I have 16GB > memory on my system). > > Given the current state of the Universe, and the fact that I know next > to nothing about FreeBSD at the moment, does anyone have any sage advise > and recommendations for me? Given that you are new to FreeBSD, I would recommend building fully-virtualized (as opposed to paravirtualized) domU, provided that your hardware and software supports that. That would give you stable FreeBSD playground from which you could move on to -CURRENT, with its Xen support, when you feel comfortable with the platform. I am running fully-virtualized FreeBSD 6.4 domU under OpenSuSE 11.0/Xen 3.2.1 and it seems to be quite happy. I have picked 6.4 just because that was what I needed at the time, but I suspect that 7.1 would work too. Just my 2c. > > Thanks (in advace - as they say), > deb > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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