Re: Aw: Re: No Xen development for 3.x any more

[Arne Fitzenreiter <Arne.Fitzenreiter@ipfire.org>]

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On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:04:08 +0100 (CET), "Jochen Rupp"
<jochen_rupp(a)web.de> wrote:
> Support for VMWare (ESXi) would be great. I assume you could install
> IPFire as VM there but are the VMWare-Tools available?

What has vmware to do with Xen-Hypervisor support?
vmware tools are not free (gpl or bsd) so we cannot add them. 
Only some parts are free and they are already included (openvmtools
addon).

Some words to clarify. We don't drop support to install IPFire as guest
on a xen-host (it is already build into the pae-linux kernel).
Ben will only drop the host support for other xen-guest that was
planned for IPFire 3.x.

Arne

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> Jochen
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>> Gesendet: Freitag, 08. Februar 2013 um 05:22 Uhr
>> Von: "R. W. Rodolico" <rodo(a)dailydata.net>
>> An: development(a)lists.ipfire.org
>> Betreff: Re: No Xen development for 3.x any more
>>
>> I currently use ipFire under Xen, but this sounds like a whole lot of
>> work just for one or two Xen machines. I'm assuming it can simply be
>> installed by booting an HVM from the ISO? If not (if there would be
>> security holes by doing it), I can simply change to a stand alone.
>>
>> Thank you very much for all the hard work.
>>
>> Rod
>>
>> On 02/07/2013 02:24 PM, Benjamin Schweikert wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > after thinking a lot about continuing xen as a hypervisor for ipfire 3.x (and after having talked to micha) I decided to not maintain Xen Hypervisor and Xen Userspace tools any more for now.
>> >
>> > The reasons for this are:
>> > - I will switch from xen to kvm with my systems and so I will not spend a lot of time reading xen mailing lists
>> > - The Xen-Sourcecode is not really well "written" and documented
>> > - This leads to a big effort in looking for patches because of the hardened system
>> > - libvirt is not supported yet
>> > - and finally: I don't have the time to spend several evenings bug fixing after each new released xen version.
>> >
>> > Ben
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