Re: [Xen-users] The future of para-virtualization

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

> By "compatibility" I mean the guest OS must be modified for para-virtualization. 
Of course that depends on your viewpoint. With PV drivers being part of the Linux kernel, the fact that the drivers need to be kept up-to-date is only really relevant for the developers looking after those drivers. For a user it makes no difference. Things just work.

> "During the development of Xen 1.x, Microsoft Research, along with the University of Cambridge Operating System ...
I have no idea whether this was ever made available. Well before my time.

As an aside: I think we may need to review the Xen wikipedia page as part of one of the next Xen Docs days. It has been frequently updated, but I am not sure how much the Xen dev community actually contributed. It seems that a lot of the information in say "Host: Unix-like systems" is out-of-date.

Regards
Lars

On 12/06/2012 17:05, Niu Xinli wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. By "compatibility" I mean the guest OS must be modified for para-virtualization. 

I see the following in wikipedia.
"During the development of Xen 1.x, Microsoft Research, along with the University of Cambridge Operating System group, developed a port of Windows XP to Xen — made possible by Microsoft's Academic Licensing Program. The terms of this license do not allow the publication of this port, although documentation of the experience appears in the original Xen SOSP paper"
Can I get a copy of this modified Windows XP?

Best Regards,
Xinli

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