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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