Has there been any thoughts on porting Openbsd to Xen? (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/) Both Freebsd (unstable) http://www.bsdclusters.com/xenofreebsd/ and Netbsd (stable) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/faq.html#a1.3 have been ported. The principle of Xen, having an insecure (linux) layer running as a host OS might go against the philosophy of Openbsd. It would be nice though to be able to use pf/altq and other Openbsd goodies in Linux land. Nicholas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Nicholas Lee wrote:> Has there been any thoughts on porting Openbsd to Xen? (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/) > > Both Freebsd (unstable) > http://www.bsdclusters.com/xenofreebsd/ > and Netbsd (stable) > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/faq.html#a1.3 > have been ported. > > > The principle of Xen, having an insecure (linux) layer running as a host > OS might go against the philosophy of Openbsd. It would be nice though to > be able to use pf/altq and other Openbsd goodies in Linux land.It would be really great, because OpenBSD has a lot of built-in security features, for example W^X. I think one of the biggest problems preventing usage of Xen in some environments is lack of possibilities to highly secure guest systems - for example great PaX (most important part of grsecurity). We all know, that standard linux is totally defenceless against so popular buffer overflows exploitation, or format string bugs ... -- voices (at) metallicrain (dot) com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Nicholas Lee wrote: [...]> The principle of Xen, having an insecure (linux) layer running as a host > OS might go against the philosophy of Openbsd.Being able to run OpenBSD as a domU is a prerequisite for being able to run it as dom0, though. -- David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel