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DrModiford: Updated XenServer information

2008-09-23T08:17:34Z

Updated XenServer information

DrModiford: Link corrected

2008-09-23T08:15:21Z

Link corrected

DrModiford: Updated information to confirm Xen (and XenServer) will run unmodified FreeBSD i386 and amd64 platforms

2008-09-23T08:15:04Z

Updated information to confirm Xen (and XenServer) will run unmodified FreeBSD i386 and amd64 platforms

DrModiford: Initial article covering xen

2008-05-17T20:50:17Z

Initial article covering xen

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The '''xen''' system is a form of virtualisation that enables a host system to run many different operating systems. These hosted operating systems are referred to as guests and can be from different vendors and include Microsoft's Windows platforms and many [[GNU/Linux]] distributions.

Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen.

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 The '''xen''' system is a form of virtualisation that enables a host system to run many different operating systems.  These hosted operating systems are referred to as guests and can be from different vendors and include Microsoft's Windows platforms and many [[GNU/Linux]] distributions.
 Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.
 It is currently possible to run FreeBSD for i386 (32-bit) and amd64 (64-bit) using the hardware-assisted virtualisation instructions found on newer AMD and Intel processors.  This ability came out with the XenServer 5.0 and Xen 3.2 releases (this was tested by the [[User:DrModiford|author]] using the official FreeBSD 7.0 current ISO releases).

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	Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.		Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.

−	It is currently possible to run FreeBSD for i386 (32-bit) and amd64 (64-bit) using the hardware-assisted virtualisation instructions found on newer AMD and Intel processors. This ability came out with the XenServer 5.0 and Xen 3.2 releases (this was tested by the [[DrModiford\|author]] using the official FreeBSD 7.0 current ISO releases).	+	It is currently possible to run FreeBSD for i386 (32-bit) and amd64 (64-bit) using the hardware-assisted virtualisation instructions found on newer AMD and Intel processors. This ability came out with the XenServer 5.0 and Xen 3.2 releases (this was tested by the [[User:DrModiford\|author]] using the official FreeBSD 7.0 current ISO releases).

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	The '''xen''' system is a form of virtualisation that enables a host system to run many different operating systems. These hosted operating systems are referred to as guests and can be from different vendors and include Microsoft's Windows platforms and many [[GNU/Linux]] distributions.		The '''xen''' system is a form of virtualisation that enables a host system to run many different operating systems. These hosted operating systems are referred to as guests and can be from different vendors and include Microsoft's Windows platforms and many [[GNU/Linux]] distributions.

−	Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen.	+	Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.
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		+	It is currently possible to run FreeBSD for i386 (32-bit) and amd64 (64-bit) using the hardware-assisted virtualisation instructions found on newer AMD and Intel processors. This ability came out with the XenServer 5.0 and Xen 3.2 releases (this was tested by the [[DrModiford\|author]] using the official FreeBSD 7.0 current ISO releases).