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Re: NetBSD and xe or libvirt?



I've been thinking for a while now that having XAPI running on
NetBSD/Xen would be amazing, but sadly never had the time to work on
it.  It would probably require a lot of work to get it to function
though.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Aaron J. Grier 
<agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost> wrote:
> I currently run NetBSD-6 / xen 4.2.3 (from pkgsrc) Dom0 on multiple
> systems in my "private cloud."
>
> I have been migrating DomUs between Dom0s by moving partition contents
> and configuration files between systems, and manually modifying the
> config files to account for partition and host (CPU pool) changes.  I'm
> looking for better (more automated) ways to handle this before I start
> rolling my own migration scripts.
>
> Is XE supported with a NetBSD Dom0?  I see sysutils/xe-guest-utilities
> in pkgsrc, but that's for DomUs.
>
> similarly, is libvirt avaialable under NetBSD Dom0?  even if it's only
> partially-featured, my understanding is that it could allow for
> aggregate monitoring across multiple Dom0s.
>
> Are there any commercial providers using NetBSD for production Dom0?  Is
> NetBSD just a portability proof point?
>
> --
>   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | 
> agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost


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