FreeBSD as a Xen DomU, dead link

[Daniel Gerzo]

Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Mike Edwards wrote:
>> Section 22.2.2.2 of 'FreeBSD as a Guest OS' in the handbook (
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html
>> ) recommends downloading the Xen build of the kernel and disk image
>> from fsmware.com, which is perpetually down.  Can this link be updated
>> to a working mirror?  In fact, are there working mirrors for the Xen
>> build?
>>
>>   
> You are right, it seems the web server is down (although the server
> responds to pings). I have not been able to locate another download site
> for the files referenced in the Handbook.  I guess we should wait a bit
> and see if it comes up again. Or, if you (or anyone else) finds an
> alternate site / can send me a copy of the files, I will be able to
> upload them at a different location and update the links.

Actually, I think downloading these images is no longer needed as the 
XEN DomU support has been committed to the SVN tree sometime last year 
and AFAIR it should be possible to build these images by yourself.

I am cc:ing kib, who should know more on this.


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   Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD Committer