On Wednesday 24 October 2007 16:14:19 Chris Kuethe wrote:

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> On 10/24/07, carlopmart  wrote:

> > Dear sirs please: I will return to my original question. I just wondered

> > if xen will be included into the OpenBSD's kernel to act as a

> > para-virtualized DomU or not. Nothing more. I will not go into issues of

> > the type is insecure or not.

> >

> > Theo, or somebody from developer team: Will be para-virtualized domU xen

> > kernel included on next OpenBSD release (4.3?) or not?? I only want to

> > know this...

>

> Not unless someone actually writes the code to do it. Notice the

> extreme number of people with openbsd.org email addresses jumping up

> and down, volunteering to do it (hint: none). Possibly not even if

> someone writes the code. Diffs are not always merged. They should be

> good diffs that improve OpenBSD. Notice the number of people with

> openbsd.org email addresses who are not convinced that doing this a)

> will improve OpenBSD and b) won't actually hurt.

>

> So I'm going to guess the answer is "No, integrating xen

> paravirtualization is not a project priority at this time. Also, where

> are your diffs?"

The OpenBSD/Xen source is at http://hg.recoil.org/openbsd-xen-sys.hg

Unfortunately, Anil has troubles with the availability of the server.
I rely on having a willing OpenBSD developer who commits the patches I send

to him. But as long as there is none, it doesn't go in.
Christoph