[nycbug-talk] Xen & FreeBSD

[Steven Kreuzer]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:20:25PM -0400, H. G. wrote:
> On 8/1/07, H. G. <tekronis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was just wondering, has anyone managed to get FreeBSD running under Xen?
> > Anyone managed to get it to run as dom0, even?
> >
> > In my humble (and worthless) opinion, I think Xen would make an awesome
> > companion
> > to jails, since having the both of them means you have the option of both
> > "lightweight"
> > and "heavyweight" virtualization.
> >
> > So if anyone has managed to get this going, I'd be happy to hear about it.
> > :)
> >
> 
> Sorry about replying to my own post, but I wanted to be clear that I was
> referring to using
> a modified kernel, not using Xen + hardware virtualization (which would let
> you run anything,
> even Windows, I think).  I'm interested in running a modified FreeBSD kernel
> expressly modified
> for running on the Xen hypervisor.  There was work being done on that in
> CURRENT, I believe.

For a while, Kip Macy was working on it, but I am not sure why he stopped.
Last time I checked, a college student was working on it for Google's
Summer of Code

I believe the goal is to allow FreeBSD to run under DomU without
SMP or PAE support in 7.0-RELEASE

On a somewhat unrelated note, there was a posting today on freebsd-announce
about a Jail rc.d script privilege escalation that makes it possible for
root inside the jail to overwrite files on the host system outside
the jail with arbitrary content.

Sorry to derail slighty, but I figured it was worth mentioning

Detials can be found at http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-announce&m=118600366231797&w=2

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Steven Kreuzer
http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer