DragonFly 6.2 released

[Aaron LI]

> On Jan 11, 2022, at 08:58, André Pfeiffer <pfeiffer.ufsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Aaron!
> 
> Yes, I pretty much like xen and having DragonflyBSD as dom0 would be really nice. But any other type1 hypervisor would do too as long it is bare metal.
> 
> Knowing that it is unavailable, is there anyone working on it? If none are doing so, what can I do to get this job done? (I have never coded O.S. only high level applications)

I don’t know anyone is working on porting Xen to dragonfly. I don’t even know whether dragonfly runs as domU (i.e. guest) in Xen.

I believe it’s much more difficult to port Xen dom0 to dragonfly than porting a type-2 hypervisor (like NVMM). But I don’t know much about Xen and thus don’t know the details.

> If I'm not mistaken, FreeBSD and NetBSD have Xen, right? Maybe I could use it as basis to enable it on DragonflyBSD?

I know NetBSD supports Xen dom0 and domU, FreeBSD supports Xen domU, but I’m not sure whether FreeBSD supports dom0.

Cheers 
Aaron 

> Em terça-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2022, Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me> escreveu:
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Jan 11, 2022, at 06:05, André Pfeiffer <pfeiffer.ufsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello Justin,
>>> 
>>> Great news!
>>> 
>>> I have been interested in a type 1 virtualization to use with DragonflyBSD. Last time I checked there wasn't one yet and after seeing the announcement I tried to find out but I'm still not sure, so, do we have DragonflyBSD support for any type 1 hypervisor?
>> 
>> If you mean dragonfly as type-1 hypervisor, the answer is no.
>> 
>> Typical examples of type-1 hypervisors are Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen.The hypervisor runs directly on the bare-metal machine, and the host OS is just a special VM managed by the hypervisor.
>> 
>> If you mean dragonfly as type-1 hypervisor guest, the answer depends. But one person reported recently that dragonfly doesn’t boot on Hyper-V. See https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/dragonfly-packer/issues/1
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> Aaron
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