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Thanks for the information everyone. It's a shame that Microsoft are seeing it mainly as a research opportunity when clearly Xen has already attracted some rather big players and customers. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:41:38 +0000, Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >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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