Can you run Xen on FreeBSD?

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Tue Dec 20 20:39:13 PST 2005


Kevin Crenshaw wrote:
> Xen supports installation on Red Hat and Suse Linux.  Does this mean that
> Xen will run on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility?  Does anyone have
> a recommendation for Virtualization software to run on FreeBSD?
>  
> Kevin
>  

 From what looks like their home page 
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/)

In addition to Linux, members of Xen's user community have contributed 
or are working on ports to other operating systems such as NetBSD 
(Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy) and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich). A port 
of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not 
available for release due to licence restrictions.

Looks like someone is working on a port of it.  Try contacting Kip Macy 
to see what the status is.

HTH,
Micah


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