From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brusowankin Subject: Windows XP patches Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:03:59 -0400 Message-ID: <256a156105090719033ec9f0b7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0767508416==" Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============0767508416== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3464_21024315.1126145039757" ------=_Part_3464_21024315.1126145039757 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, This is my first post to this group. I am confused by what I have read in a= n=20 early version of the FAQ and the current version. The first version said=20 that there was a licensing issue and the second version claims that Windows= =20 does not lend itself to the paravirtualization techniques that Xen uses. Ha= s=20 Xen changed that much? The reason I would like to know is that I do not wan= t=20 to have to buy a new system in order to take be able to run Windows XP and= =20 Linux or Darwin/Mac OSX together (yes I have begun to read the documentatio= n=20 so that I can port Darwin to Xen). If the problem is the licensing, would= =20 that still apply if I am a registered legal owner of an existing copy of=20 Windows XP and could just patch a few dll's? Thanks, David ------=_Part_3464_21024315.1126145039757 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi,

This is my first post to this group. I am confused by what I have read in an early version of the FAQ and the current version. The first version said that there was a licensing issue and the second version claims that Windows does not lend itself to the paravirtualization techniques that Xen uses. Has Xen changed that much? The reason I would like to know is that I do not want to have to buy a new system in order to take be able to run Windows XP and Linux or Darwin/Mac OSX together (yes I have begun to read the documentation so that I can port Darwin to Xen). If the problem is the licensing, would that still apply if I am a registered legal owner of an existing copy of Windows XP and could just patch a few dll's?

Thanks,

David

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