Re: XEN and Windows

[Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>]

Scheer, Roque wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I've already learned from this list that running Windows on top of XEN 
> will not be possible soon (or ever).
>  
> However, I would like to propose the idea of running XEN on top of 
> Windows. That is, instead of having XEN being an hypervisor (a la VMWare 
> ESX Server) one could have XEN working as a virtualization layer running 
> on top of Windows (a la VMWare Workstation). One could then run multiple 
> instances of the efficient (paravirtualized) ports of Linux or BSD on 
> XEN, in parallel with windows applications.
>  
> Would the new XEN 2.0 driver architecture ease the sharing of the 
> windows drivers with the XEN domains (providing some driver conversion 
> layer is provided)?

I don't think that XEN will run nicely (read: performance, xen's number 
one advantage) on anything but bare metal. But the developers can answer 
that better than me.

In the mean while you can check out Cooperative Linux at 
http://colinux.org/ that does what you want.

Peace,
Nuno Silva


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