Xen/VM?

[Martin Kelly]

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Hey Alexey,
 Just to clarify with you:
 Xen host; is the host operating system that interacts directly with the hardware and the guest OS.
 Xen guest; is the guest operating system that sits on top (in a sense) of the host OS and interacts with host only in most cases.

 But from my understanding of EC2 and Xen and from your question i am going to take a guess and assume you mean as a Xen Guest.

 From this link:
 http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/user/Comparison_with_Linux/

 To bluntly answer your question i would say unfortunately not.

 However, you could get around this by using another Xen compatible OS and running a virtual machine (e.g. virtualbox, vmware, qemu, virtual pc) instance of DragonflyBSD.

 I don't fully understand how the Amazon EC2 works as i have never used it; whether there Xen server is locked to the particular OS's they list on their website or whether you can freely install any xen compatible OS.

 I do not know. However, if your just after a unix/unix-like OS i suggest you try FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris. All are xen compatible. Solaris is very fast on xen, can actually be faster on virtual hardware than physical.

 Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexey Zilber
Sent: 05/10/12 10:04 PM
To: users at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Subject: Xen/VM?

 Hi Everyone,

 Not sure if this is the right list to ask this in. But is there any work on a Xen host for Dragonfly? I would love to try it out on EC2, and HAMMER on EBS should be pretty sweet.

 Thanks!
 -Alexey



Martin Kelly

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