Xen stuff

Ivan Voras ivoras at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 11:11:58 PST 2008


2008/12/1 Doug Rabson <dfr at rabson.org>:
> I will be working on improving Xen support in FreeBSD for the new few

Great!

> months. My main goal is to add support for native Xen drivers to an amd64
> kernel which is running in Xen's HVM mode. These drivers will take over from
> the slow emulated devices and provide most of the performance benefits of a
> paravirtualised kernel. I'm initially going to be supporting FreeBSD 6.x but
> I will port it all forward to head and 7.x when it works properly.

For the not-quite-yet-initiated : does this mean you're working on
paravirtualized drivers for Xen dom-U ("guest" case)?


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