On 10/22/07, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/10/2007, carlopmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I know that time to time somebody do the same question, but I need to > > know it: > > is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for > > OpenBSD > > 4.3 or 4.4??? > > It already exists. You can run OpenBSD DomUs (ie. run OpenBSD as a Xen > "guest"**), but AFAIK you still can't run OpenBSD Dom0s (ie. run > OpenBSD as a Xen "host"**). > > See http://www.ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/ > > ** This is a flawed metaphor, because Xen is a _hypervisor_, NOT an > emulator. The Domain U installs are not really running as guest OSes, > and the Domain zero installations are not really running as host OSes. > But you need at least one Dom0 (which when I last looked into this > still could not be OpenBSD) and you can install OpenBSD as a DomU. >
So that means that OpenBSD has code in it right now that detects if it's running under Xen and paravirtualizes itself? -Nick
