From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arne Fitzenreiter To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Aw: Re: No Xen development for 3.x any more Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:03:30 +0000 Message-ID: <95b7ac5d276c934b402235d6d31bd8a7@mail01.ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1594293769889644611==" List-Id: --===============1594293769889644611== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:04:08 +0100 (CET), "Jochen Rupp" 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.=20 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 >=20 > Cheers, > Jochen >=20 > --=C2=A0 > WorldCommunityGrid.org:=C2=A0Gemeinsam=C2=A0f=C3=BCr=C2=A0eine=C2=A0gute=C2= =A0Sache! > Hilf=C2=A0mit,=C2=A0spende=C2=A0Deine=C2=A0ungenutzte=C2=A0PC-Rechenzeit! > Infos=C2=A0unter:=C2=A0http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ >=20 >=20 >> Gesendet: Freitag, 08. Februar 2013 um 05:22 Uhr >> Von: "R. W. Rodolico" >> 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 harde= ned system >> > - libvirt is not supported yet >> > - and finally: I don't have the time to spend several evenings bug fixin= g after each new released xen version. >> > >> > Ben >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Development mailing list >> > Development(a)lists.ipfire.org >> > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > >> >> -- >> R. W. "Rod" Rodolico >> Daily Data, Inc. >> POB 140465 >> Dallas TX 75214-0465 >> http://www.dailydata.net >> 214.827.2170 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Development mailing list >> Development(a)lists.ipfire.org >> http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development(a)lists.ipfire.org > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development --===============1594293769889644611==--