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>Mark A. Williamson wrote: >> Since there's VT code being integrated into Xen currently it seems >>reasonable to assume that when VT hardware comes out, Windows will Just >>Work (TM) but I don't know the concrete plans. I may be wrong... > >Well, I think that even if Windows itself can run unmodified, there'd >still need to be a virtual BIOS, virtual VGA device, virtual IDE >controller, virtual NIC device, etc. They'd need to be emulations of >real devices, at least they'd have to be availabe until drivers can be >loaded (and written, of course) for Windows that can take over and >bypass the emulated devices. So the support for Intel VT/AMD Pacifica is >just the first step of many, really. Some support for fully virtual devices is already checked into the -unstable tree (see tools/ioemu). This is useful for start-of-day, but in practice for performance one would replace these drivers with Xen-aware paravirtualized ones after install. cheers, S. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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