On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Vern Burke <vburke@skow.net> wrote:
> Greetings all:
> Anyone have a primer on getting FreeBSD on to Xen Cloud Platform?
> Everything I''m finding on FreeBSD vs Xen is hopelessly obsolete.
>
If you have an AMD CPU from the past couple of years, there''s nothing
to it:
Create a hardware-assisted VM, boot the install .iso, do an install as per
normal, reboot into the VM. Works perfectly with 32-bit (i386) and 64-bit
(amd64) FreeBSD 6.2 through 8.0 (those are the ones I''ve tried).
If you have an Intel CPU, things may or may not work as smoothly. But you
should be able to use the same process as above. Some Xeon CPUs, though,
will cause the FreeBSD kernel to segfault.
Don''t bother trying to get FreeBSD to install as a paravirtualised
guest.
There''s some support for it in FreeBSD 8.0, but it''s not
production-ready.
--
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com
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