FreeBSD as a xen host

[Tim Dunphy]

Adam,

 Thanks for clarifying. And my root shell is csh. I am merely
executing bash so I have the convenience of command line completion.

best!

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>  I am attempting to turn my two FreeBSD hosts into xen hosts that can
>> run some vms. I am using this guide:
>>
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
>>
>> I get down to this step:
>>
>> cd xen-3.3-testing.hg ; make world && make install
>>
>> and it fails to build:
>
> You may wish to read that page again.  Dom0 support doesn't exist in
> FreeBSD, and paravirt domU is sketchy at best.
>
> Your virtualization options are VirtualBox or FreeBSD jails.  There's
> another container based method that's experimental somewhere too.
>
> Changing your root shell is asking for trouble.  There's a FAQ on it, and
> hundreds of threads of misery.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/book.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT
>
> --
> Adam Vande More
>



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