Hello, sorry to hijack another post title but it was in the archive and couldn't reply to it !
If you don't want to read it, here is a quick summary:
- Xen is available on FreeBSD
- bhyve and Xen can coexist
As I know that installing packages from the command line is not recommended, especially things like Xen which alter the OS deeply (kernel, boot), I wanted to know if this has been tested, and what the caveats I may run into !
Also, is Xen a virtualization platform considered at iX ? The cool thing is that contrary to KVM, Xen is multi platform and would work the same on either Core or Scale, and with nested virtualization could work on the cloud providers using Xen (like Amazon, last I read about).
Using TrueNAS as a dom0 would have some nice advantages: no need for another dom0, direct access to hardware (esp. drives controllers), ZFS-backed domUs without the need for NFS/iSCSI between dom0 and TrueNAS, easy migration of domU between Scale and Core, etc.
Thanks, and have a good day !
PS:
for context, I'm a home user/enthousiast (IT pro by trade) running two TrueNAS domU flawlessly since 4 years (one being the backup of the other). Both dom0 are Debian (9->10->11). All network activity is protected via two pfsense domU.
I run it on consumer hardware as "Network-in-a-box" setups. Yes, I know why "running virtualized is not recommended", I read all the posts.
I use vanilla Xen, and don't use any management tools for Xen, only small home made shell scripts, which I'd happily share for UI integration !
If you don't want to read it, here is a quick summary:
- Xen is available on FreeBSD
- bhyve and Xen can coexist
As I know that installing packages from the command line is not recommended, especially things like Xen which alter the OS deeply (kernel, boot), I wanted to know if this has been tested, and what the caveats I may run into !
Also, is Xen a virtualization platform considered at iX ? The cool thing is that contrary to KVM, Xen is multi platform and would work the same on either Core or Scale, and with nested virtualization could work on the cloud providers using Xen (like Amazon, last I read about).
Using TrueNAS as a dom0 would have some nice advantages: no need for another dom0, direct access to hardware (esp. drives controllers), ZFS-backed domUs without the need for NFS/iSCSI between dom0 and TrueNAS, easy migration of domU between Scale and Core, etc.
Thanks, and have a good day !
PS:
for context, I'm a home user/enthousiast (IT pro by trade) running two TrueNAS domU flawlessly since 4 years (one being the backup of the other). Both dom0 are Debian (9->10->11). All network activity is protected via two pfsense domU.
I run it on consumer hardware as "Network-in-a-box" setups. Yes, I know why "running virtualized is not recommended", I read all the posts.
I use vanilla Xen, and don't use any management tools for Xen, only small home made shell scripts, which I'd happily share for UI integration !