Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U.

[Michael Neumann]

Freddie Cash schrieb:
> On October 15, 2007 11:27 am Vincent Blondel wrote:
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD-current as Dom/U on my Core2 Quad server
>> hosting Linux Ubuntu 7.10 as Dom/0.
> 
> Is that a quad-core CPU or a quad-CPU system?
> 
> If it's a quad-core CPU, it should support Intel hardware virtualisation 
> feature.  If it does, you don't need any Xen patches or support in 
> FreeBSD.  Just create a Xen VM that supports hardware virtualisation (not 
> a paravirtualised VM) and install FreeBSD as per normal.  That's the 
> beauty of the Intel VT and AMD VX (or whatever they call it now) 
> features -- no need to patch an OS to run in a Xen VM.

Does anybody know if there are big differences in performance
of running an unchanged OS under Xen with hardware virtualization turned on vs.
a paravirtualized OS? Or any other problems with an unchanged OS using hardware 
virtualization? If not, then this is clearly the way to go!

Regards,

   Michael