Re: [Xen-devel] Xen/ia64 status (and solicitation for alpha testers and developers)

[Mark Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Xenlinux must go 
> through a binary-translation pass after which it is essentially fully
> virtualized but as a result is quite slow (4x).

That sounds interesting - what exactly does the binary translation pass do?

Just curious...

Cheers,
Mark

> Early in 2005, Xen/ia64 should be ready for a broader audience.
> For now, I am soliciting a small number of alpha testers.  If
> you are interested in Xen on ia64, have access to Itanium hardware,
> would like to help out with build or development tasks, and have
> some skills working with low-level kernel debugging, I'm eager
> for your help.  Potential end users should wait for a later release,
> however I am still interested in hearing from you.  Note that
> like Xen/x86, Xen/ia64 is fully GPL and any help or contribution
> will be open source and properly credited.
>
> Happy holidays,
> Dan Magenheimer
> HP Labs (but based in Fort Collins Colorado USA)
> dan.magenheimer <at> hp.com
>
> P.S. I won't have access to email for the next few days and I am
> already a bit behind in keeping up with xen-devel mail so I would
> appreciate it if you would cc me directly.  Apologies in advance
> that after today I won't be able to respond until about Dec 16.
>
> * well... nearly all.  There's a bug somewhere in IDE that I haven't
> tracked down yet so I can't use my DVD-ROM :-)
>
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