Setup xen into FreeBSD

Aymeric Barantal mric at chamal.fr
Wed Nov 30 11:19:12 UTC 2011


Le 30 nov. 2011 à 10:18, George Ember a écrit :

> Hi. I want to setup xen into FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD 9 CURRENT.
> I fetch Xen latest tarball. Xen needs this dependencies to be built:
> Code:
> 
>    * GCC v3.4 or later
>    * GNU Make
>    * GNU Binutils
>    * Development install of zlib (e.g., zlib-dev)
>    * Development install of Python v2.3 or later (e.g., python-dev)
>    * Development install of curses (e.g., libncurses-dev)
>    * Development install of openssl (e.g., openssl-dev)
>    * Development install of x11 (e.g. xorg-x11-dev)
>    ** Development install of uuid (e.g. uuid-dev)
>    * bridge-utils package (/sbin/brctl)
>    * iproute package (/sbin/ip)
>    * hotplug or udev*
>    * GNU bison and GNU flex
>    * GNU gettext
>    * 16-bit x86 assembler, loader and compiler (dev86 rpm or bin86 & bcc debs)
>    * ACPI ASL compiler (iasl)
> 
> With *bold* are the dependencies that I cannot find. Any idea?
> I want to setup Xen on FreeBSD. *Not to install FreeBSD on a Xen machine
> running Linux*.
> How to do this?

There is no support for a Xen hypervisor running on a Freebsd host.

You should try instead bhyve (http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe) which 
is the native freebsd hypervisor.

Or also take a look in ports for virtualbox which is also an hypervisor
to run guest VM.

Sincerly,

-- 
Aymeric Barantal


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