My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

[Saifi Khan]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote:

>      [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed!  --SB]
>      On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Saifi Khan
> <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD.
> >> 
> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what
> >> is and isn't supported at this time.
> >> 
> >> Adrian
> >> 
> >> 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org>:
> >> > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my
> >> >> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment
> >> >> together.
> >> >>
> >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery
> >> >>
> >> >> Notable bits: pygrub works. :)
> >> >>
> >> >> Adrian
> >> >
> >> > Hi:
> >> >
> >> > What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen
> >> > 3.3.x ?
> >> >
> >> > My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified
> >> > (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64
> >> > box.
> >> >
> >> > Any pointers or observations ?
> >> >
> >
> >Hi Adrian:
> >
> >Thank you for the clarification about "no dom0 support in 
> >FreeBSD 8.x as of now". 
> >
> >Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact
> >dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he
> >was busy.
> >
> >i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the
> >following:
> >
> > . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some
> >   point in time or would be happy to be domU ?
> >
> > . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the
> >   slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting
> >   extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a
> >   entirely different approach which does not use Xen ?
> >
> > . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation 
> >   would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ?
> >
>      If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and
> not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last
> week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package.  The FreeBSD port is being beta-
> tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well
> already.  My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports
> tree fairly soon.
> 

What i intend to do is this:

1. capability to run FreeBSD as dom0 with Xen.
2. setup and run Eucalyptus on FreeBSD/dom0
3. run SaaS (storage as a service) solutions leveraged on BSD.
4. develop VMM orchestration solution.
5. Package the entire stuff.
6. Interested folks can build services/solutions on top of this
   infrastructure.

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thanks
Saifi.