On 03/03/14 22:06, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > oldlaptop <oldlaptop654@aol.com> (2014-03-03): >> There are currrently kernels with xen domU support in the archive for >> kfreebsd-i386, for both kfreebsd 9 and kfreebsd 10 (e.g. >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/kfreebsd-image-10.0-1-xen), but there >> is currently no support for building xen installer images on this arch. > > Cc-ing debian-bsd@ since they might want to send patches for that. Thanks. Actually, the regular kfreebsd d-i images should work okay for a Xen HVM-mode domU. kfreebsd-10 should additionally be able to use PV drivers in this mode out of the box, I think. The "-xen" flavour kernels are only needed for a Xen PV domU, or for kfreebsd-9 it may have run a little faster due to having PV drivers (whereas generic kernels didn't). I think Xen PV domU are becoming obsolete, with modern host hardware typically supporting AMD-V / Intel VT-x now, or otherwise being very slow/outdated for this task. For the jessie release, I don't think new d-i images for Xen PVM will be worth it. Perhaps even the "-xen" kernel flavour will be dropped unless sufficient demand can be shown for it. Its existence may actually be confusing if the generic kfreebsd-10 images are suitable. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
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