Trying to get "a" version of *BSD XEN in .iso to load on a DELL 1850 POWEREDGE (intel chip 64bit)

[Christoph Egger]

On 02/24/12 10:00, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> 2012/2/23 Eric Schnoebelen<eric at cirr.com>:
>>
>> Scott Strobele writes:
>> - Hi Y'all,
>> - I am digging through the site, and getting ready to call it a day, I will
>> - finish reading the entire site tomorrow until I find this, Ian Pratt said
>> - it was here if it was anywhere.  Another Ian named this location as well.
>> - I just have preferences of stability for a mysql database that will be
>> - large, and need to scale as far as size of cluster, it should be a lot of
>> - fun.
>> - I have used BSD before, and am not finding what I am looking for yet.
>>
>> NetBSD has DOM0 and DOMU support in NetBSD 4.*, 5.* and 6.0_BETA.
>>
>> I don't know if anyones created a bootable ISO that starts a XEN
>> hypervisor as part of the boot, but it's been something I've
>> considered (I've got a couple of boxes that won't boot a generic
>> kernel, but run fine with a xen hypervisor abstracting the
>> hardware.)
>
> I've done something similar, but with a Linux distribution (Alpine
> Linux), you can find more info here:
>
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-01/msg00092.html
>
> It's a very minimal Dom0 LiveCD (80MB), that contains a very basic
> Linux system (uclibc + busybox) plus the necessary tools to run xen.
> It's quite fast, because it runs from ram. It's still a beta test, but
> we will probably start releasing this Dom0 LiveCDs with each Alpine
> Linux release starting from the 1st of April (approximate scheduled
> release date of the next version).
>
> I would also like to do something similar with NetBSD, but that will
> require some work.

Zafer made some NetBSD 5 LiveCDs which can boot Xen Dom0 out of the box.

Christoph