Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

[Nikolas Britton]

On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton
> <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd
> > really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are
> > their any alternative solutions that will enable me to do this kind of
> > stuff with FreeBSD, or would it be better to go with Solaris Dom0 +
> > FreeBSD DomU?
>
> http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html
> google: jail freebsd
>

Yes I'd like to know more about jails, is there a high level /
executive summary type document that I can read somewhere? From what I
remember jails are mostly designed to partition stuff... for security
reasons.

What I'd really love to do is split up each service (httpd, postgres,
samba/nfs,  ldap/nis, asterisk, etc.) into discrete virtual machines.
It's too much work trying to make them all play nice on one system,
especially during upgrades. As it is right now I don't upgrade any
services once a system is in production use.