Contributed by jose on from the virtual-computing dept.
FreeBSD port is in the plans. OpenBSD?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html "
I know several people who are interested in this, including myself (I could do some testing with it). I think you'd also have to modify OpenBSD a bit to work within the system as a guest OS. Anyone have any experience playing with this on OpenBSD yet?
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By raiten () on
but for the security of this virtual network, it will depend of their abstraction layer so ... will see
nonetheless, an very interesting project
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on Xen: Linux 2.4, Windows XP, and NetBSD"
Since they've been working with NetBSD, hopefully they make it a host OS soon, and since OpenBSD is much closer to NetBSD than FreeBSD we might get it before them :)
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http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/02/1232235
From what I read...
Both Xen and VMware are virtual machines.
The main difference is that VMware tries to emulate (interrupts and all) an IA32 system, and Xen doesn't emulate it completely. You could have a chance at running anything on VMware(Inferno, BeOS, Novell), while with Xen you need to modify the OS slightly to run in the Xen virtual environment. The modifications you make to the OS significantly improve performance of the virtual machine running that environment. The SlashDot article includes a link to some impressive benchmarks that show that Xen is closer in performance to a native Linux OS than to the other virtual machines.
Xen could become an ISP's dream - true virtual hosting, not just a chroot jail.
This is all based off of just what I read. I haven't played with it yet, tho'. If anything I said is incorrect, please correct me.
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Solaris 10 Zones could be impressive too.
By grey () on http://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/exo/theses/coffing/co
Xen seems to be along similar lines of the newer plex86/bochs project; and even that xok project and doesn't really interest me as much per say; however the xok reading has been really fascinating. There don't seem to be any papers on it since 2000; but it's notable that OpenBSD was being used as an integral part of their development process, even as early as 2.2.
Something conceptually like xok; while having a more general virtualization element seems like it could be really appealing, as it might eliminate many of the overheads associated with current generation virtualization & emulation attempts...
Anyway, just rambling a little bit, but maybe someone else will find those to be similar conceptually, but more interesting as well.
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For a more accurate description, see the pages of both projects. What i said is explained in an extensive way at the PLex86 page, iirc.
Otoh, Xen is only x86, while the developers of Plex86 splitted op Bochs as a seperate project, with both a different purpose. Therefore, comparing it to Bochs isn't fair. They're not aimed at the same target.
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