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From: Jochen Rupp <jochen_rupp@web.de>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Aw: Re: No Xen development for 3.x any more
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:04:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-60a56e15-0d44-4f40-89f9-fd98088d2852-1360310648326@3capp-webde-bs42> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <assp.07515115e6.51147D91.2010301@dailydata.net>

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Support for VMWare (ESXi) would be great. I assume you could install IPFire as VM there but are the VMWare-Tools available?

Cheers,
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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> > Development(a)lists.ipfire.org
> > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development
> >
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-08  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-07 20:24 Benjamin Schweikert
2013-02-08  4:22 ` R. W. Rodolico
2013-02-08  7:52   ` Benjamin Schweikert
2013-02-08  8:04   ` Jochen Rupp [this message]
2013-02-08  9:03     ` Aw: " Arne Fitzenreiter
2013-02-08  9:55       ` Michael Tremer

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