Re: FreeBSD stable? was Re: [Xen-devel] Xen FreeBSD port is available?

[Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What Xen tree/changeset are you using? This was done against 1.1354 on
unstable. I pulled 1.1450 and discovered that the domain builder API has
changed, so I might as well take the time required to change the init
path so that freebsd can be booted by the unified domain builder.



                                        -Kip


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Christian Laursen wrote:

> Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I've had a VM up and running for about an hour and 45 minutes running
> > the lmbench3 OS benchmarks. The results aren't going to be that
> > interesting as I have a lot of diagnostic code in the kernel. However,
> > it does serve as a first order sanity check of stability.
>
> Great.
>
> > What all do you need to do beta testing? I have a loopback image (file)
> > that I use that can probably be compressed down to 100MB. The i386-xeno
> > tree more or less (one needs to add a few symlinks) just drops into a
> > FreeBSD 5.2.1 tree.
>
> Does your loopback file contain a normal userland or is it modified in
> some way? If it is normal, we should be able to build one ourselves
> without any problems.
>
> Regarding the source we will of course need whatever is not already in
> the cvsuppable source.
>
> > How stable do you need it to be? There is a known issue that I'm working
> > around by disabling pre-faulting on a 64MB range of the VA.
>
> At this point just stable enough to get a good feel about how it will
> run. We don't have any immediate plans for production.
>
> > If you're inclined to work on it as well I'll send you a patch with the
> > added debugging support I've added to xen. It has proven *extremely*
> > useful.
>
> Please do.
>
> --
> Christian Laursen
>
>
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