Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?

[Aaron Peterson]

On 12/20/05, Aaron Peterson <lloyd.peterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/05, Kevin Crenshaw <kcrenshaw at viscient.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.  I'll look into it.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Nikolas Britton
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:28 PM
> > To: Kevin Crenshaw
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?
> >
> > On 12/20/05, Kevin Crenshaw <kcrenshaw at viscient.com> wrote:
> > > Xen supports installation on Red Hat and Suse Linux.  Does this mean that
> > > Xen will run on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility?  Does anyone
> > have
> > > a recommendation for Virtualization software to run on FreeBSD?
> > >
> >
> > I don't see why not, it's what we do with VMware. Why not try and port
> > Xen to FreeBSD, you have the source code.
>
> Also, Xen currently requires any guest OS to be running a modified
> kernel.  Suse and Redhat "support" for Xen means that they ship with
> this modified kernel so they can be installed as a guest OS.  They
> might also ship with the Xen hypervisor and have some way to install
> Suse or Redhat as VM 1 (the controlling virtual machine).  If you're
> asking if one can run FreeBSD as a guest, I'm guessing the answer is
> yes.
>
> In the upcoming year, intel and AMD are releasing new virtualization
> technology built into their CPUs.  When this happens, Xen will be able
> to use any x86 OS without modification supposedly.
>
> Just some extra information I picked up at Ohio Linuxfest this year
> that I thought might help you on your quest :-)
>
> Aaron
>