The Xen Project hypervisor is an open-source type-1 or baremetal hypervisor,
which makes it possible to run many instances of an operating system or indeed
different operating systems in parallel on a single machine (or host). The Xen
Project hypervisor is the only type-1 hypervisor that is available as open
source. It is used as the basis for a number of different commercial and open
source applications, such as: server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware
appliances
WWW: http://www.xenproject.org/
xen: rename to xen47
Preparatory change in order to import a newer Xen version while
keeping the previous one.
Reviewed by: bapt
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16416
xen: update port and apply security fixes
* Apply the following Xen security fixes (XSAs): 167, 168, 170.
* Update SeaBIOS version to 1.8.2, and apply build fix so it builds with
ELF toolchain objcopy [0].
* Perform the backport of two functional changes to the Xen kernel in order
to improve PVH Dom0 hardware support [1].
Security: CVE-2016-1570
Security: CVE-2016-1571
Security: CVE-2016-2271
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Requested by: Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu> [1]
PR: 207170 [0]
Approved by: bapt
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5420
xen: apply XSAs
Apply the following XSAs: 148, 149, 150, 151, 152 and 153. More information
about the content of each XSA can be found at: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: bapt
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4049
Introduce FreeBSD xen dom0 components.
Add xen kernel and xen toolstack ports to the ports tree
This packages are for now only supported on FreeBSD 11 after 1100055
The xen package only include the kernel and an addition to the loader menu to
allow to disable booting on the xen kernel
The Xen toolstack (xl) includes seabios (hence the addition of LGPLv3 license)
Explicitly use nm from ports binutils to workaround a bug in FreeBSD's nm on
some version of FreeBSD.
Workaround configure checks that are actually not needed during the build of the
tool stack.
Thanks AllanJude@ for the xen.4th
Thanks roger@ for all the work making FreeBSD dom0 support working.
Please notice that you will need an Intel box with EPT and a working IOMMU
