| Port details |
- xen-tools Xen Hypervisor management tools
- 4.21.0.20260212 sysutils
 =4       4.19.1.20250217_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: royger@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2011-12-14 09:03:54
- Last Update: 2026-04-16 14:06:18
- Commit Hash: 6961b47
- People watching this port, also watch:: git, collectd5, pkg, openvpn, sudo
- Also Listed In: emulators
- License: GPLv2 LGPL3
- WWW:
- https://www.xenproject.org/
- Description:
- The xl program is the new tool for managing Xen guest domains. The program can
be used to create, pause, and shutdown domains. It can also be used to list
current domains, enable or pin VCPUs, and attach or detach virtual block devices
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - There is no configure plist information for this port.
- USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- xen-tools>0:sysutils/xen-tools
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install sysutils/xen-tools
- pkg install xen-tools
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: xen-tools
- Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
- ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: amd64
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1772106154
SHA256 (xen/4.21.0.20260212/qemu-9.1.0.tar.xz) = 816b7022a8ba7c2ac30e2e0cf973e826f6bcc8505339603212c5ede8e94d7834
SIZE (xen/4.21.0.20260212/qemu-9.1.0.tar.xz) = 132478356
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- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- seabios>0 : misc/seabios
- XEN_X64_EFI.fd : sysutils/edk2@xen_x64
- bash>0 : shells/bash
- gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
- pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
- py311-setuptools>=63.1.0 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- bison : devel/bison
- ninja : devel/ninja
- perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
- Test dependencies:
-
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- seabios>0 : misc/seabios
- XEN_X64_EFI.fd : sysutils/edk2@xen_x64
- python3.11 : lang/python311
- perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
- Library dependencies:
-
- libjson-c.so : devel/json-c
- liblzo2.so : archivers/lzo2
- libpixman-1.so : x11/pixman
- libargp.so : devel/argp-standalone
- libgnutls.so : security/gnutls
- libinotify.so : devel/libinotify
- libzstd.so : archivers/zstd
- libfdt.so : sysutils/dtc
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
- This port is required by:
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Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for xen-tools-4.21.0.20260212:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
SPICE=off: Enable SPICE protocol for QEMU
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- sysutils_xen-tools
- USES:
- cpe gettext gmake gnome libtool localbase:ldflags perl5 pkgconfig python shebangfix iconv bison ninja:build
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
4.5.0_3
27 Apr 2015 20:43:30
   |
bapt |
Control what we do build from qemu-xen to avoid automagically detected
dependencies
Reduce the size of the package by 10M by not building the qemu tools
Hack the build to always use the c++ compiler from base which avoids having
qemu-system-i386 linked to gcc's libstdc++
Based on reports by: Michael Dexter |
4.5.0_2
10 Apr 2015 20:25:00
|
bapt |
Build xen-tools with qemu so that dom0 is usable
Reported by: Michael Dexter
Pointyhat to: bapt |
4.5.0_1
06 Apr 2015 17:51:42
|
bapt |
Drop limitation on recent head as it should work on all version
Extend limitation to i386 |
4.5.0_1
06 Apr 2015 14:38:29
|
bapt |
Drop dependency on xen-kernel
Bump portrevision |
4.5.0
06 Apr 2015 14:33:12
|
bapt |
Add sysutils into CATEGORIES |
06 Apr 2015 14:32:43
 
|
bapt |
Correctly rename into xen-tools |
06 Apr 2015 14:29:52
|
bapt |
Rename emulators/xl into sysutils/xen-tools
Requested by: roger@ |
4.2.2
06 Apr 2015 14:27:27
|
bapt |
Rename xen-tools into xen-guest-tools
Requested by: roger@
Approved by: dinoex@ (maintainer) |
4.2.2
09 Feb 2015 20:36:52
|
dinoex |
- fix build on i386 |
4.2.2
03 Feb 2015 04:52:45
|
dinoex |
- fix typo in path |
4.2.2
01 Feb 2015 07:04:36
|
dinoex |
- use full path in DEPENDS |
4.2.2
30 Jan 2015 15:12:28
|
dinoex |
- update to 4.2.2
- take maintainership
Approved by: feld |
4.1.3_3
24 Oct 2014 16:56:10
|
mva |
- Convert ports of sysutils/ to new USES=python
Approved by: portmgr (implicit) |
4.1.3_3
14 Dec 2013 23:14:13
|
wg |
sysutils/xen-tools: fix python usage for real
Reported by: exp-run (PR 184591)
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
4.1.3_3
14 Dec 2013 09:21:31
|
mva |
- Fix the usage of 'python' to get rid of the implicit lang/python
dependency
Reported by: exp-run (PR 184591)
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
4.1.3_3
31 Oct 2013 11:02:05
|
feld |
Support STAGE
Fix build on HEAD and when gcc is unavailable
Approved by: crees (mentor) |
4.1.3_3
20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
|
bapt |
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils) |
4.1.3_3
29 Jul 2013 15:03:59
|
feld |
Fix my email address again, using proper @FreeBSD.org styling
Approved by: swills (mentor) |
4.1.3_3
25 Jul 2013 11:30:01
|
feld |
Update my email address throughout the tree
Approved by: swills (mentor) |
4.1.3_3
10 Oct 2012 01:34:05
|
swills |
- Prepare for splitting out guest scripts into another port
PR: ports/172466
Submitted by: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> (maintainer) |
4.1.3_2
19 Sep 2012 19:46:07
|
swills |
- rc script cleanup
PR: ports/171775
Submitted by: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> (maintainer) |
4.1.3_1
18 Sep 2012 20:52:17
|
swills |
- Fix RC script installation
PR: ports/171753
Submitted by: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> (maintainer) |
4.1.3
17 Sep 2012 14:21:21
|
swills |
- Update to 4.1.3
Added scripts so users of XCP and XenServer can finally use all Xen
functionality.
This includes:
* Live migration
* Suspend/resume
* Reporting of memory usage
* Reporting of network interfaces and IPs
* Memory ballooning
* Graceful Shutdown/Reboot
PR: ports/171646
Submitted by: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> (maintainer) |
4.0.1
01 Sep 2012 19:42:34
|
swills |
- Update maintainer since the previous maintainers email is bouncing.
PR: ports/170756
Submitted by: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> |
4.0.1
03 Jan 2012 05:41:39
|
linimon |
Mark as only for amd64/i386/ia64: those are the only archs that have
definitions in config/ .
Hat: portmgr |
4.0.1
14 Dec 2011 09:03:23
|
novel |
Add xen-tools 4.0.1, xen tools within FreeBSD domU.
PR: 163266
Submitted by: Evan Sarmiento <esarmiento@wayfair.com> |
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