http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Xen&feed=atom&action=historyXen - Revision history2024-03-29T12:15:20ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.18.0http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Xen&diff=10641&oldid=prevDrModiford: Updated XenServer information2008-09-23T08:17:34Z<p>Updated XenServer information</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Xen system was bought by Citrix and is sold under the [http://citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148 XenServer] brand name.  The open source code remains available from the [http://www.xen.org/ official website].</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>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).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>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).</div></td></tr>
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</table>DrModifordhttp://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Xen&diff=10639&oldid=prevDrModiford: Link corrected2008-09-23T08:15:21Z<p>Link corrected</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>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).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>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 [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">User:</ins>DrModiford|author]] using the official FreeBSD 7.0 current ISO releases).</div></td></tr>
</table>DrModifordhttp://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Xen&diff=10638&oldid=prevDrModiford: Updated information to confirm Xen (and XenServer) will run unmodified FreeBSD i386 and amd64 platforms2008-09-23T08:15:04Z<p>Updated information to confirm Xen (and XenServer) will run unmodified FreeBSD i386 and amd64 platforms</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">using the 'enlightened' paravirtualisation method.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>DrModifordhttp://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Xen&diff=10210&oldid=prevDrModiford: Initial article covering xen2008-05-17T20:50:17Z<p>Initial article covering xen</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>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.<br />
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Work is in progress to enable FreeBSD to run natively on xen.</div>DrModiford