Is there any talk of porting OpenBSD to Xen too? I mean, Free and NetBSD are ported, and Linux and Plan 9 (and seriously, who uses Plan 9? yeah, It''s got some very cool features, but was it worth porting?) are ported, so why not OpenBSD? ~Maru Also, Xen: very awesome. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
> Is there any talk of porting OpenBSD to Xen too?This has come up before. Talk to the OpenBSD folks. Christian Limpach did the work as a NetBSD developer. Plan 9 was done by a Plan 9 developer. I did the work as a user of FreeBSD. Only Linux was done by the Xen team. If you or someone else steps forward, Christian would probably be happy to answer questions. FreeBSD is too far diverged to really help. -Kip ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Ronald G. Minnich wrote:>On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, maru wrote: > > > >>(and seriously, who uses Plan 9? yeah, It''s got some very cool >>features, but was it worth porting?) >> >> > >This type of question, appearing on a research list, still amazes me. > >Yes, the port was worth the effort. > >ron > >This is what happens when you don''t separate xen-users from xen-developers. Having said that, when I was compiling the index of virtualization papers, I could not find papers on the nuances of Xen porting. Perhaps this is not a common research topic in virtualization because other para-virtualization efforts have not attracted as many ports as Xen. An index of Xen porting resources could help future ports. In the absence of papers, are there known mailing list threads or other notes that could be compiled into an index? E.g. a comparison of the Plan 9 and NetBSD ports. Rich ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Sunday 06 March 2005 10:28 pm, maru wrote:> Is there any talk of porting OpenBSD to Xen too? > I mean, Free and NetBSD are ported, and Linux and Plan 9 > (and seriously, who uses Plan 9? yeah, It''s got some very cool > features, but was it worth porting?) are ported, so why not > OpenBSD? > > > ~Maru > Also, Xen: very awesome. >Maru, I am only posting this to you since my postings to the xen list often never show up. As an OpenBSD user I am waiting for Vanderpool technology(VP) which will obviate the need to customize OpenBSD for Xen without VP. The OpenBSD project does not (IMHO) have enough developer resources to support a temporary modification to the OS to permit it to run with the current version of Xen. I only speak for myself, not the OpenBSD developers. Dave Feustel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, maru wrote:> (and seriously, who uses Plan 9? yeah, It''s got some very cool > features, but was it worth porting?)This type of question, appearing on a research list, still amazes me. Yes, the port was worth the effort. ron ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
I started a paper on the plan 9 port, complete with all the mistakes I made along the way. I probably ought to finish it. ron ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel