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== Instructions ==

In order to be able to run Freebsd 9.0-RELEASE or newer on XCP you should have a
XENHVM kernel and the Xentools installed from the FreeBSD xentools port (/usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools). 

So, for summarizing :

* Build and install HVM kernel.
* Build and install Xentools from ports (/usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools).
* Build and install Bash shell from ports (/usr/ports/shells/bash).
* untar and place the proper location (as could be deduced) in the tar output the FreeBSD contributed XenserverTools. 

So :

<pre>
x freebsd-xenservertools/
x freebsd-xenservertools/etc/
x freebsd-xenservertools/procfalse/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/escribe-ip-if.sh
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/escribe-meminfo.sh
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/xe-daemon
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/etc/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/etc/rc.d/
x freebsd-xenservertools/usr/local/etc/rc.d/xe-daemon.sh
x freebsd-xenservertools/etc/freebsd-version
</pre>

* Create /procfalse
* do a ‘uname -r > /etc/freebsd-version’ from you’re shell as root.
* after that, just place files in proper places as seen before.

Finally... after booting the machine (or doing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xe-daemon.sh start), you would be
able to enjoy of the Xen Cloud virtualization possibilities and so, you could see on right clicking on
the machine in XenCenter :

[[Image:freebsd90-cloud-screenshot.png]]

that you’re able for example to suspend or migrate de FreeBSD VM.

Available downloads : 

* [http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/xenservertools-freebsd/freebsd-xenservertools-1.1.0.tar XenServerTools FreeBSD for XCP 1.1.0  MD5:e9638a4d4693d5c411ddcb3e6bd75982]
* [http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/xenservertools-freebsd/freebsd-xenservertools-1.5.0.tar XenServerTools FreeBSD for XCP 1.5.0  MD5:842d9d43f17b674be86c2f96ce9f79d6]
* [http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/xenservertools-freebsd/freebsd-xenservertools-1.6.0.tar XenServerTools FreeBSD for XCP 1.6.0  MD5:8f6fb9765de4cfd2e524255d8d4dbfd0]

This code is opened under [http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html OpenBSD license]. I will very happy of answering any kind of doubts of this scripts (data contact below).

== Thanks To ==
I wanted to say I’m very thankful to my company SareNET who has allowed me to examine how
could I run FreeBSD in XCP and very thankful too to Dave Scott from Citrix because of the initial
ideas for getting this working.

== About the author ==
Egoitz Aurrekoetxea

System's administrator-programmer 

Email : egoitz@sarenet.es

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