Re: FreeBSD stable? was Re: [Xen-devel] Xen FreeBSD port is available? - Kip Macy - com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

15 messages in com.xensource.lists.xen-develRe: FreeBSD stable? was Re: [Xen-deve...

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Keichii Moto	12 Oct 2004 22:01
Christian Laursen	13 Oct 2004 02:49
Mark A. Williamson	13 Oct 2004 05:03
Christian Laursen	13 Oct 2004 07:00
Kip Macy	13 Oct 2004 16:38
Kip Macy	14 Oct 2004 02:52
Fred Clift	14 Oct 2004 07:25
Christian Laursen	14 Oct 2004 08:05
Brian Wolfe	14 Oct 2004 08:23
Kip Macy	14 Oct 2004 13:34
Kip Macy	14 Oct 2004 13:36
Kip Macy	24 Oct 2004 20:32
Christian Laursen	26 Oct 2004 00:50
Kip Macy	26 Oct 2004 14:38
Keichii Moto	27 Oct 2004 23:52

Subject:	Re: FreeBSD stable? was Re: [Xen-devel] Xen FreeBSD port is available?
From:	Kip Macy (kma...@eventdriven.org)
Date:	10/26/2004 02:38:49 PM
List:	com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

What Xen tree/changeset are you using? This was done against 1.1354 on unstable. I pulled 1.1450 and discovered that the domain builder API has changed, so I might as well take the time required to change the init path so that freebsd can be booted by the unified domain builder.

-Kip

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Christian Laursen wrote:

Kip Macy <kma...@eventdriven.org> writes:

I've had a VM up and running for about an hour and 45 minutes running the lmbench3 OS benchmarks. The results aren't going to be that interesting as I have a lot of diagnostic code in the kernel. However, it does serve as a first order sanity check of stability.

Great.

What all do you need to do beta testing? I have a loopback image (file) that I use that can probably be compressed down to 100MB. The i386-xeno tree more or less (one needs to add a few symlinks) just drops into a FreeBSD 5.2.1 tree.

Does your loopback file contain a normal userland or is it modified in some way? If it is normal, we should be able to build one ourselves without any problems.

Regarding the source we will of course need whatever is not already in the cvsuppable source.

How stable do you need it to be? There is a known issue that I'm working around by disabling pre-faulting on a 64MB range of the VA.

At this point just stable enough to get a good feel about how it will run. We don't have any immediate plans for production.

If you're inclined to work on it as well I'll send you a patch with the added debugging support I've added to xen. It has proven *extremely* useful.

Please do.