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Re: [Xen-users] Xen PV drivers for FreeBSD

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen PV drivers for FreeBSD
From: Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:50:20 +0200
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> > Has anybody successfully run FreeBSD in a HVM domain on Intel-based host?
> 
> The problem with FreeBSD on Intel was that the realmode emulation code 
> currently available was not comprehensive enough to get FreeBSD to boot 
> (maybe it was just the bootloader, but I guess it could have been FreeBSD 
> early kernel code too).

Mark, thank you for the answer.

As far as I understand the problem is not with a loader only, 
otherwise using GRUB instead of /boot/loader we could 
circumvent it.

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WBR, i.m.chubin


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