Re: [Xen-users] xen-on-xen

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James Harper ha scritto:
> I use a xen box to do test restores of customer backups to validate that
> the backed up data is actually enough to rebuild their servers from.
> This works really really well for restoring one or more physical
> machines and a workstation or two.
>
> We now have a few customers actually using xen on their own networks, so
> I am now faced with a new problem of how best to restore them...
>
> Being able to run Xen on top of Xen would solve that... is there a way?
> Or any other suggestions?
An hypervisor is able to run in a virtual machine if hypervisor 
construction and copmuter architecture meet the second Popek's and 
Goldberg's theorem (about recursive virtualization).
Xen does not meet it, because x86 architecture is not a "perfect" 
virtualizable one.

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