Re: Port DragonFly to Xen platform

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Sylvestre Gallon wrote:

> Do you want me to try to make the same study for Xen (it will probably
> take more time) or do you want me to focus on kvm? After some reading
> I found the KVM project funnier :D .

I for one would be interested in seeing a Xen port.  Not that you should 
pay much attention to my opinion if there are others that think KVM is the 
way to go, but it would be pretty neat to be able to have DragonFly 
running "natively" in a Xen VM (especially since NetBSD is my main 
platform, and the webhost I plan to use also provide Xen VMs).


If I recall correctly, Manuel Bouyer did the initial Xen 2 NetBSD port in 
about two weeks (DomU) -- things have presumably changed a lot in Xen 
since then, but it suggests that Xen is not necessarily as huge and hairy 
as others have said.  (Then again, maybe it is, when you get to 
implementing the Dom0 bits.)


MAgnus