Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Tobias Crefeld
Am Mon, 2 May 2011 19:40:23 +0200 schrieb Tobias Crefeld : > $ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo |head -1 > flags : fpu de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat > clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext > 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni cx1

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Tobias Crefeld wrote: > Am Mon, 2 May 2011 11:15:57 -0500 > schrieb John Jackson : > >> It's probably much more straightforward to run kvm-qemu instead of >> XEN. > > Hm, I'll consider this alternative. Till now our "test-LAN" ran on > VMware but for some reasons we

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-05-02, Tobias Crefeld wrote: > >> I've successfully run IPSEC (iked and isakmpd both work), bridging and >> various network services this way. > > I moved from IPSEC to SSL/OpenVPN some years ago because it's more > robust against packet loss but in combination with routing protocols > lik

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Tobias Crefeld
Am Mon, 2 May 2011 11:15:57 -0500 schrieb John Jackson : > It's probably much more straightforward to run kvm-qemu instead of > XEN. Hm, I'll consider this alternative. Till now our "test-LAN" ran on VMware but for some reasons we want to get away from VMware. > OpenBSD works fine as a guest u

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Matt S
I use kvm/qemu on a Debian Squeeze box to virtualize all of my OpenBSD stuff and it works extremely well (my only wish is that OpenBSD could support Dom0 or the kvm/qemu equivalent). If you decide to go this route, you need to make certain to disable MPBIOS after installing OpenBSD on a guest

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Tobias Crefeld wrote: > I think about installing an OpenBSD-guest on a XEN-Host (Debian > Squeeze), all OS as 64bit-version alias "amd64". Are there any > experiences with OpenBSD as Dom-U? > > The guest will be a firewalling-router with ospfd, bind, openvpn and 6 >

Re: XEN-Guest

2011-05-02 Thread John Jackson
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:21:11PM +0200, Tobias Crefeld wrote: > I think about installing an OpenBSD-guest on a XEN-Host (Debian > Squeeze), all OS as 64bit-version alias "amd64". Are there any > experiences with OpenBSD as Dom-U? It's probably much more straightforward to run kvm-qemu instead o