XEN Paravirtualation Drivers or XEN appliance Build
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Let me ask a question, how hard would it be to release a build with the XEN Paravirtualation Kernal and network drivers? I use the AMD Phenom processor. I know ther would have to be a Intel verison and a AMD verison, I just trying to squeeze all the performance out of my XEN server that I can.
The latest build of 1.2.1 run's without issue. In fact it is much faster than 1.2 Final release. The only issue that I have run into is that I can't reboot the virtual image. It throws a hardware flag up and give all kind of issues. I force a reboot and it works like a charm. I have run on the 1.2.1 image for about 7 to 10 days before updating. No real issue on updating other than converting to the latest build of 1.2.1 - RC2
I would like to know if it is even possible.
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That requires FreeBSD 8
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So what I am hearing is that verison 2.0 would support that type of build. I know that that is currently in alpha. Have any time lines been ste for the it possible going to a release? I know that is a stretch to look that far into the future.
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pfSense 2.0 is still FreeBSD7, not 8, and is still very alpha. The pfSense team makes a habit of not publishing any far-out release dates. The best answer you're likely to get as far as when a particular version will be released is "when its done and not a moment sooner".
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That is cool. I am forced to use virtualization due to budget cost. It's just too expensive now to run 7 /10 different servers at home in your home office mostly for testing and development. I cut everything over to one ZEN server and will be build a second with in 6 to 8 months. I just looking to be able to use a ZEN build with drivers that can take better advantage of the hardware and software that it is running on.
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You can virtualize pfSense pretty well on vmware ESX. There are a number of installations and carp clusters working on ESX.
Paravirtualization is something entirely different. If you just want to run it as a vm it'll work fine.