Re: State of virtualization on FreeBSD

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 11:30:14 UTC
Maybe FreeBSD abandoned Xen :(

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:21 PM Steven Friedrich <
freebsdlouisville@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/17/23 8:41 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > On 5/17/23 8:00 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> >> I am new to virtualization on FreeBSD and trying to figure out the
> >> best solution for my use case.
> >>
> >> I am running a workstation and hoping to ditch multi-booting several
> >> partitions of FreeBSD, Linux Minst, KDE Neon, etc.
> >>
> >> I only have a single hard drive (6TB), so root-on-zfs is ok, though I
> >> am perplexed by zfs complexity.  I have no intention of offering
> >> commercial virtualization.  I just want to audit OSes.
> >>
> >> I have watched P03A: Xen HVMlite and FreeBSD - Roger Pau Monné on
> >> YouTube, but I have a hard time viewing and hearing the
> >> presentation.  Is there a written version of this presentation with
> >> slides available?
> >>
> >> There has been a lot of development of virtualization since this
> >> presentation.  Are there newer presentations of each virtualization
> >> solution?
> >>
> >> Why would I choose bhyve over Xen?
> >>
> > I perused https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0#Shortcomings
> >
> > Are these shortcomings still present?  I want dom0 to be FreeBSD, not
> > Linux.
> >
> This page was last edited on 26 October 2016, at 09:41
>
> That was seven years go, has Xen abandoned FreeBSD?
>
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-- 
Mario.