freebsd 8 domU = self hosting

Doug Rabson dfr at rabson.org
Thu Dec 11 06:41:08 PST 2008


On 7 Dec 2008, at 10:23, Robert Joosten wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen I read: "domU is self-hosting  
> on
> 8-CURRENT (can compile world + kernel in a VM)". Sounds great.
>
> I'm currently checking out releng_7_xen in order to build a kernel. Am
> I correct in understanding with freebsd 8, there's no need to pull a
> xen-specific flavour from svn ? It's just in 8 already ?? Just  
> wondering.

Xen domU support is in the main FreeBSD-8-current source tree. Just  
build an i386 kernel using the supplied XEN kernel configuration.



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