linux on freebsd?

[James McDonald]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/5/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>   
>> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>     
>>> Anyone keeping linux and FreeBSD on the same box? I feel tempted to give
>>> FreeBSD a try, sharing a box with linux. But if I were to use FreeBSD as
>>> primary OS I would like to be able to enter the linux part to perform
>>> upgrades and such without rebooting, as if inside a chroot. Is there
>>> some emulator that allows this? (I know FreeBSD can run linux binaries,
>>> but this is a different matter.)
>>> And is there some sensible way to keep a common /home partition? I'm
>>> guessing not, due to different filesystems...
>>>
>>>       
>> If your processor supports Virtualization (AMD-V or Intel-VT) then you
>> can run Xen on linux and have FreeBSD as a client (I think). If not then
>> you would probably need VMware
>>     
>
> That's both true & false.  You don't need hardware based
> virtualization support to use Xen.  However, you'll get far better
> performance if your CPU does support virtualization.
>
>   
>From what I gathered you need a Xen aware client OS to install without
the virtualization cpu support. Which then limits you to Linux. I sadly
haven't got a CPU that supports Virtualization so I haven't tested it.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I couldn't figure out how to install a Windows
XP using the Fedora 7 xen-manager application.