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You can run FreeBSD on Linode as of FreeBSD 8.*. It can run in domU now.
by avar 16y ago
You can run FreeBSD on Linode as of FreeBSD 8.*. It can run in domU now.
- lsc 16y agois this true? hot damn, I am behind the times. do you know if it's the paravirtualized kernel? last I checked it wasn't particularly stable... but damn. I don't see it in their 'distro manager' thing
- a2tech 16y agoI emailed them about it after 8 was released-they have a 'non supported install method' for OpenBSD that a forum member wrote. They told me it SHOULD work for FreeBSD, but they're currently not devoting any resources to figuring out how to make it go
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- lsc 16y agohuh. the paravirt OpenBSD stuff is pretty old and dead (Theo, uh, is obviously not a fan of virtualization) I'd be interested to hear if anyone has gotten FreeBSD running on linode or another paravirt xen host, though.
- avar 16y agoThey don't officially support it. But they just run a normal Xen setup. Setting up any Xen OS that supports running in domU is relatively easy. There's a few people that have already done it for FreeBSD and NetBSD. You can try it out locally by setting up Linux and running FreeBSD in domU. Then just transfer that image to Linode.
- lsc 16y agoSo, like I do with NetBSD then? well, I guess I actually have the netbsd installer in there. freeBSD 8 requires at least xen 3.3 to run in paravirt mode; this is why it won't work on ec2, so I don't know if that counts as a 'normal xen setup' - The thing is, last I read FreeBSD8 was not stable under paravirt xen, and I was hoping to hear this had changed. Also, last I remember, it didn't work at all with more than one vcpu.