Re: [Xen-devel] Is anyone working on HVM Paravirt drivers for windows?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:16:41PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:55:35 -0600
> "Walker, Bruce J (HP-Labs)" <bruce.walker@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > One might reasonably expect something from Novell is this area, given the 
> > recently announced relationship with Microsoft?
> >  
> 
> 
> If ZDnet is correct (always an "if") then the following rather limits any
> value here
> 

Also the fact that XenSource guys don't want to comment on this doesn't
promise very good.. they seem to already have PV drivers for Windows, but I
guess those won't be opensource or even freely available :(

-- Pasi

> ---
> Microsoft is also making some other changes as far as virtualisation
> goes. Although any Windows version can serve as the primary, or host,
> operating system, only the Business and Ultimate versions of Vista can
> run as guest operating systems in virtualisation. In Windows XP, each
> virtual instance of the OS required a separate licence, but there were no
> restrictions on which versions could act as guests.
> 
> ---
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_limits_Vista_transfers/0,130061733,339271684,00.htm?ref=search
> 

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