On 10/22/07, ropers  wrote:

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> On 22/10/2007, carlopmart  wrote:

> > Hi all,

> >

> >   I know that time to time somebody do the same question, but I need to know it:

> > is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for OpenBSD

> > 4.3 or 4.4???

>

> It already exists. You can run OpenBSD DomUs (ie. run OpenBSD as a Xen

> "guest"**), but AFAIK you still can't run OpenBSD Dom0s (ie. run

> OpenBSD as a Xen "host"**).

>

> See http://www.ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/

>

> ** This is a flawed metaphor, because Xen is a _hypervisor_, NOT an

> emulator. The Domain U installs are not really running as guest OSes,

> and the Domain zero installations are not really running as host OSes.

> But you need at least one Dom0 (which when I last looked into this

> still could not be OpenBSD) and you can install OpenBSD as a DomU.

>

So that means that OpenBSD has code in it right now that detects if

it's running under Xen and paravirtualizes itself?
-Nick