Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[Dave Feustel]

Is there documentation yet?

Thanks,
Dave Feustel
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Re: Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[Mark Williamson]

> Is there documentation yet?

In terms of user docs?

It works the same way as VT - the examples in the user manual / the example 
config for VMX should work just as well.  From the user perspective the two 
are just about the same.

Cheers,
mark

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Re: Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[Dave Feustel]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:20, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Is there documentation yet?
> 
> In terms of user docs?
> 
> It works the same way as VT - the examples in the user manual / the example 
> config for VMX should work just as well.  From the user perspective the two 
> are just about the same.

Does the VT version support unmodified operating systems?
If not, then how are unmodified operating systems started up
and controlled?

What is the url for the 3.0.2 user manual?

Thanks.
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Re: Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[Jan Philipp Giel]

Am Dienstag, 11. April 2006 18:32 schrieb Dave Feustel:
> Does the VT version support unmodified operating systems?
> If not, then how are unmodified operating systems started up
> and controlled?
>
> What is the url for the 3.0.2 user manual?

please read 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html
(especially this section:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html#SECTION04300000000000000000 )

Cheers
Philipp

Re: Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[Dave Feustel]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:27, Jan Philipp Giel wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. April 2006 18:32 schrieb Dave Feustel:
> > Does the VT version support unmodified operating systems?
> > If not, then how are unmodified operating systems started up
> > and controlled?
> >
> > What is the url for the 3.0.2 user manual?
> 
> please read 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html
> (especially this section:
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html#SECTION04300000000000000000 )
> 
> Cheers
> Philipp

Thanks!!!

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Re: Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[shock]

for example

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:32:00 +0200, Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>  
wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:20, Mark Williamson wrote:
>> > Is there documentation yet?
>>
>> In terms of user docs?
>>
>> It works the same way as VT - the examples in the user manual / the  
>> example
>> config for VMX should work just as well.  From the user perspective the  
>> two
>> are just about the same.
>
> Does the VT version support unmodified operating systems?
> If not, then how are unmodified operating systems started up
> and controlled?
>
> What is the url for the 3.0.2 user manual?
>
> Thanks.



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Re: Pacifica feature support in Xen 3.0.2

[Mark Williamson]

> > It works the same way as VT - the examples in the user manual / the
> > example config for VMX should work just as well.  From the user
> > perspective the two are just about the same.
>
> Does the VT version support unmodified operating systems?
> If not, then how are unmodified operating systems started up
> and controlled?

Using both Intel VT and AMD Pacifica, guests can run unmodified.  They have a 
similar config file format to paravirt, but with a few differences - there 
are comments in the example*.vmx files.  Both technologies are the same from 
the user point of view, and in turn are similar to paravirt guests (but they 
have a virtual framebuffer, disks handled in slightly different way, etc).

Cheers,
Mark