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[Xen-devel] Re: Xen 3.0 for OpenBSD

To: dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen 3.0 for OpenBSD
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:38:54 -0400
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Dave Feustel wrote:
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 15:22, Johnny Lam wrote:

Dave Feustel wrote:

Anyone working on porting Xen 3.0 to OpenBSD?

I think you mean porting OpenBSD to Xen so you can run OpenBSD as a guest domain (domU).


Actually, what I would like to do is replace linux in xen/linux with OpenBSD.
However, that may be too much work. I do like having OpenBSD as my interface
to the internet.

NetBSD can also be used as the privileged domain (dom0) running under Xen 2.0 (though not yet under Xen 3.0), so the NetBSD sources are still a useful starting point for you if you're planning to pursue porting OpenBSD to Xen to run as a privileged domain.

However, I think it's probably more useful to start by porting OpenBSD as a guest domain -- you're going to want to run all your services in guest domains anyway to take advantage of the security-through-isolation that Xen provides. In my own setups, the only critical thing that dom0 does is keeping the clock accurate for the guest domains, though it might make sense to also provide, e.g. DNS or DHCP services in dom0 as well.

        Cheers,

        -- Johnny Lam <jlam@xxxxxxxxxx>

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