Paravirtualized FreeBSD 8 Guest on Citrix XenServer 5.5/5.6 Host

[Tjado Mäcke]

Yeah... as I've said, i used HVM and i only spoke about my expierience
with that :) So no PVM...

tjado

Am 21.06.2010 02:14, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> As I've said before, the FreeBSD-Xen PVM code requires someone with
> the time and inclination to pick it up and maintain it. The commercial
> focus of FreeBSD/Xen users at the moment seems to be on HVM support
> rather than full PVM support.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On 21 June 2010 01:07, Tjado Mäcke <tjado.ml.freebsd-xen at maecke.net> wrote:
>   
>> I didn't do any tests in general. I used for a while FreeBSD HVM (and
>> other os guests...) under xen-3.2.1. There I got problems that VM's
>> react very slowly under ZFS/UFS I/O stress (tar of logs, etc...) till I
>> need to reboot the guest. It was under FreeBSD 7.2 with ZFS beta but 8.0
>> didn't worked with that xen/kernel. The last weeks I tried Xen 4.0.0 but
>> tap:aio and tap:tapdisk:aio cause complete host kernel crashes under I/O
>> stress (dd if /dev/zero...). With Xen-4.0.1-rc3-pre I haven't these
>> problems, FreeBSD 8 is working (so booting works ;) and states/times
>> seems a lot more healthier.
>>
>> Softs: Webserver with a top 5000 (alexa) site (high db access - cached,
>> some I/O because of downloads), high threaded game server (for wc3),
>> mail server and other webservers/stuff...
>>
>> Am 20.06.2010 18:00, schrieb Guillaume Seigneuret:
>>     
>>> Could you tell us what did you do to test the stability ?
>>> Softs running on it, who many time and with who many users using it ?
>>>
>>> Thanks by advance.
>>>
>>> Cordialement,
>>>
>>> Guillaume Seigneuret
>>>
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