Hi
I'm currently liaising with a company that offers 'cloud' style scalable
virtual server hosting for Linux based on their Virtual Iron infrastructure. As
a committed FreeBSD user/fan and potential customer, I'm working with them to
trial and introduce FreeBSD 7 to their list of supported OSes.
As it stands, I am told that FreeBSD does seem to run as a guest OS under
Virtual Iron (which is based on Xen), but some performance and VI features are
lost because there's no version of the VSTools accelerated Linux driver set for
FreeBSD, making it something of a second-class citizen to the ubiquitous Linux
offerings.
So I'm thinking:
0) It would seem to be increasingly important that FreeBSD doesn't get left by
the wayside as virtualistaion becomes more common.
1) Is there any known initiative/project out there already looking into porting
vstools?
2) Are there known technical barriers to doing this? Apparently only a handful
of Linux distros themselves are supported out of the box.
3) Is anyone interested? :)
FWIW, VSTools is GPL and readily obtainable, along with Open Virtual Iron:
http://www.virtualiron.com/Support/Downloads/Open-Virtual-Iron/index.php
I toyed with taking it on myself but it looks quite hairy and I don't have
either the hardware nor any practical experience of FreeBSD/Linux driver
development or internals!
Thoughts?
/Simon
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Simon Kinsella
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