Re: A bunch of questions about getting a working NetBSD/xen system

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 
> Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> writes:
> 
>> I've thought about running a Linux DOM0 and NetBSD DOMUs, but
>> mainstream Linux seems to be abandoning Xen, so I'd have to run a back
>> release.
> 
> Wow, that's interesting.  Does that imply that mainstream Xen is looking
> more at NetBSD, or is it just that "distros" no longer have Xen support?

I'm told they're going towards KVM instead.

> What does this mean for the future of Xen?

No clue.

> Does anything but NetBSD and Linux have dom0 support?

Not that I know.  FreeBSD was looking at it, but to my knowledge only has domU 
support now.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb