Xen Status

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Adrian Penisoara <ady at freebsd.ady.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Xen (DomU support) has recently started its life in HEAD (FreeBSD-CURRENT).
>
>  Follow this thread under freebsd-hackers:
>
>    http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?g8962l$q9l$1
>
>  I agree with you that we need more virtualization offerings in order
> to keep the [Free]BSD platform interesting for the users. I guess
> we'll have to push harder vendors like VMware, Sun (xVM/VirtualBox),
> etc. ...
>  For VMware support, see also :
> http://www.rofug.ro/article.php/fbsd_as_vmware_host_vote
>
> Regards,
> Adrian.

I'd not expect anything from VMware in the foreseeable future.

VirtualBox is open source now but someone with enough knowledge and
time would have to work on porting it to FreeBSD. The hardest part of
the work would be porting the kernel module, I guess.

(CC to the list, now)

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