[XCSSA] November Meeting

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

> If so, I'd like to add my endorsement of this topic.  I'm just now
> starting to experiment with Xen (on NetBSD 4.0 Beta, of course) and
> am primarily interested in setup issues, rather than "kewl schtuff
> j00 can do".
....
> (Beyond setup, I'm just interested in having ready access to
> a reference installation of student machines, without the headache
> of multi-booting.  I.e. NetBSD Dom0 and one or more linux DomUs.

NetBSD/Xen Howto : http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/howto.html
NetBSD/Xen status : http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/

Hummm.... what about having the students use NetBSD LiveKey
(http://imil.net/nlk/ ) and pull/virtually load/run the appropriate
linux?

some dated related posts:
(old ~2004) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.general/10241
(Xen 3.0, no smp) http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2006/07/03/0000.html

> And no, I don't plan to do it the other way around.)
>
Ah, so much for NetBSD under knoppix,
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/xen/index-en.html

Linux slant, but can be converted to netbsd, "virtual cluster with xen" :
part 1: http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/139/33/1/1/
part 2: http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/161/33/

Suppose NeWBIE with Xen would be nice ( NetBSD Ware Burned In Economy
: http://arudius.sourceforge.net/ )?

Craig

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BSD livecd list (incomplete) :
http://www.livecdlist.com/?pick=BSD_x86&showonly=All

Xen 2.0 (~2005) : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8540
Xen 3.0 article (~2006): http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8909

Creating a NetBSD livecd : http://www.yazzy.org/docs/NetBSD/netbsd-livecd.txt