Interested in Xen?

[Christian Brueffer]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 03:41:19PM +0200, Sascha Retzki wrote:
> 
> I am currently playing arround with Xen a lot, and it looks very sane and
> promising. I'd like to know if the DragonFlyBSD folks want to work on that
> (the kernel must be changed a bit to actually work under xen), or if there
> is already work done.
> 
> Sidenote: FreeBSD "silently" (read: they did not post something on /. iirc)
> implemented Xen support into 5.*/current, so I think it is not that much
> to do. As I am generally unaware of (unix)-kernel design :( , I have no
> idea how much work DragonFlyBSD would have to do.
> 

This is wrong, there is currently no Xen support in any FreeBSD branch.

Kip Macy has developed Xen support for FreeBSD on his own some time ago
and has gotten a FreeBSD commit bit recently (for importing Xen support
into FreeBSD mainly, yay!).

- Christian

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