Re: Xen on NetBSD 4.0-RELEASE and Windows HVM

["Dinesh Nadarajah" <dinesh.nadarajah%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the input. I have been doing a lot of reading on this
subject and am now not too sure about Xen. Like you said, the Linux
camp is moving to KVM and Novel is going to be doing its own thing
with Xen. FreeBSd is not even looking at Xen ... I am not sure what
they are doing for virtualization.

I am going to read and wait out to try Xen 3.2 (if it is viable by then).

-D

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Pierre-Philipp Braun
<pbraun%nethence.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>
>  Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
>  > 3. Are there any (preferred) long term virtualization solution for
>  > NetBSD (like KVM for linux) [My admin wants to move all Unix to Linux
>  > with KVM]
>
>  Note amd64's domU (current) works great on RHEL 5.1.  But Redhat itself
>  ie heading KVM, indeed, for the futur, while Novell is soon going for
>  its own XEN.  (I wonder who's gonna use real xensource's xen.gz next
>  releases appart citrix and netbsd)
>
>  Also, for your windows-hvm project, you might have poor windows
>  performance unless you find some driver pack.  I'm wondering if those
>  work on NetBSD (why not since, I guess, those are talking to xen, not
>  the dom0) :
>
>  a free one,
>  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-03/msg00905.html
>  novell's one,
>  http://www.novell.com/products/vmdriverpack/ &
>  http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=1hw8rIc4fwM~
>
>  Precisely, for Windows XP, you need to Press F5 when it says to Press F6
>  for additional drivers, then select "Standard PC".
>
>  Anyways don't expect great desktop experience even with sdl=1 + the
>  raptoison window manager to get it in full screen (I've tryed that on
>  rhel powered laptop).
>
>  Pierre-Philipp Braun
>