Re: Xen Status : FreeBSD-current as Dom/U.

From: Michael Neumann <mneumann_at_ntecs.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:08:33 +0200
Freddie Cash schrieb:
> On October 15, 2007 11:27 am Vincent Blondel wrote:
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD-current as Dom/U on my Core2 Quad server
>> hosting Linux Ubuntu 7.10 as Dom/0.
> 
> Is that a quad-core CPU or a quad-CPU system?
> 
> If it's a quad-core CPU, it should support Intel hardware virtualisation 
> feature.  If it does, you don't need any Xen patches or support in 
> FreeBSD.  Just create a Xen VM that supports hardware virtualisation (not 
> a paravirtualised VM) and install FreeBSD as per normal.  That's the 
> beauty of the Intel VT and AMD VX (or whatever they call it now) 
> features -- no need to patch an OS to run in a Xen VM.

Does anybody know if there are big differences in performance
of running an unchanged OS under Xen with hardware virtualization turned on vs.
a paravirtualized OS? Or any other problems with an unchanged OS using hardware 
virtualization? If not, then this is clearly the way to go!

Regards,

   Michael
Received on Mon Oct 15 2007 - 21:33:10 UTC

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