From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kip Macy Subject: Re: Xen as a kernel module Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:32:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20050125173106.H89060@demos.bsdclusters.com> References: <41F6F13B.7040308@diku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41F6F13B.7040308@diku.dk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jacob Gorm Hansen Cc: Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I'm obviously partisan, but I think that would largely defeat the privilege de-coupling that they're trying to achieve. Not to mention nullifying the notion of a driver domain. -Kip On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote: > hi, > > with Xen increasingly depending on Linux for bootstrap, drivers, packet > filtering etc., would it make sense to have the option of compiling Xen > as a Linux kernel module, like in VMWare or coLinux? > > It seems this would give similar performance to Xen 1.2, while retaining > most of the benefits of the NGIO model (i.e. not having to port > drivers). The only downside would be the lack of driver isolation, but > most people would be willing to live with that is my guess (plus as long > as there is no IO-MMU a bad driver is still able to take down the > complete system anyhow). > > I imagine this could be done in a way that would also work under other > host-OSes, like *BSD or Windows. > > Any comments? > > Jacob > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl