NetBSD/xen

About NetBSD/xen

NetBSD/xen is a port of NetBSD to the Xen virtual machine monitor. It was first committed to the NetBSD source tree on March 11th, 2004.

Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software.

See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ for more details on Xen.

Christian Limpach is the maintainer of NetBSD/xen.

NetBSD/xen News

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released

NetBSD 3.0 has been released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.

2005-03-13:   Xen 2.0 Howto

A short Xen 2.0 Howto has been made available.

2005-03-10:   Xen 2.0 support

Manuel Bouyer has just merged the bouyer-xen2 branch into NetBSD -current; this means that support for Xen 2.0 (both in privileged and unprivileged mode) will be available in NetBSD 3.0. Support for Xen 1.2 has been removed.

2004-12-09:   NetBSD 2.0 released

NetBSD 2.0 released with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement.

2004-03-11:   NetBSD/xen created

Christian Limpach has imported the first port of NetBSD/xen. This port currently works on Xen version 1.2.