On 10/22/07, ropers <ropers@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 22/10/2007, carlopmart <carlopmart@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I know that time to time somebody do the same question, but I need to know it:
> > is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for OpenBSD
> > 4.3 or 4.4???
>
> It already exists. You can run OpenBSD DomUs (ie. run OpenBSD as a Xen
> "guest"**), but AFAIK you still can't run OpenBSD Dom0s (ie. run
> OpenBSD as a Xen "host"**).
>
> See http://www.ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/
>
> ** This is a flawed metaphor, because Xen is a _hypervisor_, NOT an
> emulator. The Domain U installs are not really running as guest OSes,
> and the Domain zero installations are not really running as host OSes.
> But you need at least one Dom0 (which when I last looked into this
> still could not be OpenBSD) and you can install OpenBSD as a DomU.
>

So that means that OpenBSD has code in it right now that detects if
it's running under Xen and paravirtualizes itself?

-Nick