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From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:45:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7C3A11.3060009@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A54aL-000576-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>


Keir Fraser wrote:
> Our aim was to implement an efficient VMM for commodity hardware, and
> that really means x86. We're considering a port to x86-64, but so far
> we're limited in man power (this is why *BSD is not yet available, for
> example). 

I understand. Obviously infinite resources are everyone's wish ;)

What type of an effort would it be to port Xen to a new architecture?
I haven't looked at the code, so I can't say, but I'm really looking for
a rough approximation: 1 man-month, 10 man-months, 100 man-months?

Thanks,

Karim
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-02  9:17 [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization Ian Pratt
2003-10-02 10:12 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-10-02 13:21   ` Oliver M. Bolzer
2003-10-02 14:25 ` Karim Yaghmour
2003-10-02 14:37   ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 14:45     ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2003-10-02 14:48       ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 15:15     ` John Bradford
2003-10-02 15:30       ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 16:39         ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-02 17:23           ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 18:42             ` Karim Yaghmour
2003-10-02 18:53               ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-03  1:59                 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-10-03  8:13                   ` Ian Pratt
2003-10-03 10:12                     ` Andreas Hauser
2003-10-03 10:29                       ` Ian Pratt
2003-10-03 11:53                         ` Andreas Hauser
2003-10-03 12:40                           ` Ian Pratt
2003-10-03  8:19                 ` John Bradford
2003-10-03  9:19                   ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-03 10:47                     ` John Bradford
2003-10-03 13:14                       ` Doug McNaught
     [not found] <CA95C29D57188841ABB072EA7357C00D02C13377@orsmsx402.jf.intel.com>
2003-10-03  1:50 ` Paul Brett

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