Re: Xen

[drkfiber <drkfiber_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

works great on vmware, not free though.


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:18:12 -0700, Theo de Raadt
<deraadt_(_at_)_cvs_(_dot_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org> wrote:
> > Ben Goren wrote:
> > > Is there any interest 'round here in Xen?
> > > If not Xen itself, is it an idea worth imitating?
> >
> > It might be interesting to use a Xen-alike to virtualize several OpenBSD
> > servers.  For example, instead of having your mail server, DNS, DHCP,
> > etc. on the same machine you could put them on "different" virtual
> > machines.  Kind of like chroot, but for the entire OS.
> >
> > It'd also be nice for testing, you could have -stable and -current on
> > the same machine without having to reboot all the time.
> 
> And that is why you have started the work on making OpenBSD run on
> Xen, right?  Or do you all just chat?