From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Kelly Subject: Re: Guest OS without paging Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:05:27 +0000 Message-ID: <20051107200524.GF7339@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Kamble, Nitin A" Cc: Ivan Kelly , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:48:57AM -0800, Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > If you have A box with VT cpus, then you can try the unmodified (vmx) > guest. Eg the old DOS can boot on top of it. It is also used to boot > windows guests on top of Xen. With vmxloader guest thinks that it is in > real mode but actually it is running in the vm86 mode. My project is to port minix to xen, so doing as you suggest wouldn't get me the best of marks ;) Thanks for the suggestion though, ill look into it. -ivan