[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Questioning the Xen Design of the VMM
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 18:01 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Greetings! > > The Xen project caught my attention on LKML discussing hypervisors, so I took > a look at Xen and read the README, where it says: > > This install tree contains source for a Linux 2.6 guest > > This immediately turned me off, as I hoped Xen would be a bit more > transparent, by simply exposing native hw tunneled thru some multiplexed Xen > patched host-kernel driver. > > I maybe missing something, but why should the Xen-design require the guest to > be patched? Xen runs with high performance without binary translation on hardware without virtualization support. This requires patching the guest. With hardware virtualization support Xen can run the guest unmodified. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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