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Add 2017Q2 entry on the Xen section in the Handbook from bcr

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available.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='doc'>
<title>New Xen Handbook Section</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Benedict</given>
<common>Reuschling</common>
</name>
<email>bcr@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-xen.html">Handbook Section About &os; as a Xen Host</url>
<url href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10774">Original Phabricator Review</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; supports the Xen hypervisor, with DomU support since
&os;&nbsp;8.0 and Dom0 available since &os;&nbsp;11.0. The
&os; Handbook was lacking instructions on how to run a Xen
host and VMs. The steps were outlined in the &os; wiki, but
needed some extra bits of text from the upstream Xen wiki in
order to form a complete guide. The new handbook section
briefly explains what Xen is, how it differs from other
hypervisors, and what features are currently available in
&os;. It then goes on to describe how to set up the Dom0, as
well as detailing the guest VM support known as DomU.</p>
<p>Reviewers Nikolai Lifanov, Roger Pau Monné, and Warren Block
provided valuable feedback on the initial version in
Phabricator. Additional corrections were found by Björn
Heidotting while translating the section into German.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>More options for the Dom0 and DomU could be provided.</task>
<task>People should test these instructions on their hardware
and provide feedback. This would also help us get better
testing of the Xen port for &os;.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>