Re: [Xen-users] XCP FreeBSD?

[Freddie Cash <fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Vern Burke <vburke@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Greetings all:
 Anyone have a primer on getting FreeBSD on to Xen Cloud Platform? Everything I'm finding on FreeBSD vs Xen is hopelessly obsolete.

If you have an AMD CPU from the past couple of years, there's nothing to it: ÂCreate a hardware-assisted VM, boot the install .iso, do an install as per normal, reboot into the VM. ÂWorks perfectly with 32-bit (i386) and 64-bit (amd64) FreeBSD 6.2 through 8.0 (those are the ones I've tried).

If you have an Intel CPU, things may or may not work as smoothly. ÂBut you should be able to use the same process as above. ÂSome Xeon CPUs, though, will cause the FreeBSD kernel to segfault.

Don't bother trying to get FreeBSD to install as a paravirtualised guest. ÂThere's some support for it in FreeBSD 8.0, but it's not production-ready.

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Freddie Cash
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