From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Johansson" Subject: running Windows (albeit slowly) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:38:18 -0500 Message-ID: <41A480BA.7060202@harvee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org forgive me if this has been beaten to death but I've been thinking again about the problem of running Windows as a guest OS under xen. I understand and accept all the arguments of why you need to modify the core OS for your virtualization process. Under the opinion that there is no crime if optimization fails on incorrect code, would it not be appropriate to do all the things necessary to run Windows unmodified albeit poorly slash slowly? assuming of course that people want to run Windows. The only reason I do is because of speech recognition requirements but that's a very different conversation. of course, Linux would continue to run at its normal speed. ---eric -- "Part of the problem with the Wal-Mart business model is that it requires more poverty in order to grow." http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/11/22/wal_mart/print.html ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/