From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nuno Silva Subject: Re: XEN and Windows Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:19:58 +0100 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4181B6DE.1000301@vgertech.com> References: <8D41D1F60264314591FA7C0B012EB7BBCDA689@spbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8D41D1F60264314591FA7C0B012EB7BBCDA689@spbexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Scheer, Roque" Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This Newsletter Sponsored by: Macrovision For reliable Linux application installations, use the industry's leading setup authoring tool, InstallShield X. Learn more and evaluate today. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSI/go/ins0030000001msi/direct/01/