xen discuss - Sep 2005 - [xen-discuss] Solaris 10/Xen availability?

Hi,

we are currently using Xen and Linux to run our ad-hoc wireless network
simulation system and to develop routing algorithms for wireless networks
(http://ds.informatik.uni-marburg.de/de/research/project.php?name=routing).

Linux, however, does not permit fine-grained instrumentation. Since
we''re
especially interested in cross-layer network stack issues, I''d like to
use
DTrace
to obtain more information about in-kernel network latencies and throughput
in order to better visualize and possible optimize our routing
infrastructure.

Since Solaris already seems to boot on Xen 2 (and possibly Xen 3
already?), would
it be possible to gain access to pre-release versions of the kernel/kernel
source
and the ported Xen utilities to run Solaris in Xen''s dom0 and/or domU?
Or is
there already a released version I''m not aware of?

Best regards,
    Michael Engel
-- 
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Engel   - engel at informatik.uni-marburg.de
University of Marburg         - Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hans-Meerwein-Str.            - D-35032 Marburg, Germany
Phone: +49 6421 / 28 21562    - Fax: +49 6421 / 28 21573

Thanks for your interest in our work on Xen.
Our prototype is running as domU on Xen 2.0.7; we''re working on keeping
up with Xen 3.0 but we
don''t have anything even remotely working on 3.0 yet.

We want to make the source code of the port available, and we''d like to
invite people
to contribute to the project too.  But much to my chagrin, we are /still/
working through the
machinations of getting our project source code repository out there, as well as
prebuilt
images etc. so that people can experiment with the technology.

I know you''d like me to give you a date when all this will be done, but
there are too many
unknowns to make such predictions useful at this point, sorry.  However, I will
post an update
on this topic in about a month i.e. on or before October 21st, and share more
status and plans.

What dependencies do you have on Xen and/or the target OSes?  Do you need Xen
3.0
or will 2.0.7 do?  Do you need dom0 and domU?
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I''d also be interested in (Open)Solaris DomU images for Xen 2.0.7 as I
am investigating using xen for diskless systems and migrating running machines
back and forth.

To this end a Dom0 with solid diskless NFS root operation would be a great
benefit. I am currently looking to NetBSD for this.
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> What dependencies do you have on Xen and/or the
> target OSes?  Do you need Xen 3.0
> or will 2.0.7 do?  Do you need dom0 and domU?
Are you folks working on Solaris support for dom0 *and* domU in the Xen 3.0 time
frame?
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