FreeBSD/Xen status update
Current status and future development of FreeBSD/Xen
- Track: BSD devroom
- Room: AW1.121
- Day: Saturday
- Start: 15:05
- End: 15:50
During the last year (2014) a lot of interesting development happened around the FreeBSD/Xen port. FreeBSD slowly moved from running as a PV with HVM drivers, to running as a PVHVM guests and finally as a PVH DomU. The last step into getting full Xen support into FreeBSD was to get it to run as a PVH Dom0, which is now finished and in a tech-preview status.
This talk will include a high-level description of the modifications needed in order to get FreeBSD running as a Dom0, and a demo of FreeBSD running as a PVH Xen Dom0.
The goal of this talk is to provide information about the Xen PVH and FreeBSD architecture, and to encourage other OS hackers to work on it.
- Basic Xen description and specific Xen concepts.
- How the Xen community works (compared to BSD communities).
- A look into new Xen features (PVH).
- Work being done in FreeBSD improving Xen support.
- Demo of a FreeBSD PVH Dom0.
Speakers
| Roger Pau Monné |