From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262723AbUKERIj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:08:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262717AbUKERIj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:08:39 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:39387 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262723AbUKERIg (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:08:36 -0500 Message-ID: <418BB384.2020300@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:08:20 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Pratt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Xen 2.0 Officially Released! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ian Pratt wrote: > The Xen team are pleased to announce the release of Xen 2.0, the > open-source Virtual Machine Monitor. Xen enables you to run > multiple operating systems images concurrently on the same > hardware, securely partitioning the resources of the machine > between them. Xen uses a technique called 'para-virtualization' > to achieve very low performance overhead -- typically just a few > percent relative to native. This new release provides kernel > support for Linux 2.4.27/2.6.9 and NetBSD, with FreeBSD and Plan9 > to follow in the next few weeks. Xen is pretty darn neat -- any plans to merge into upstream Linux kernel? Jeff