From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hopwood Subject: Re: Porting Xen Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:36:44 +0000 Message-ID: <41C8F9DC.4040203@blueyonder.co.uk> References: Reply-To: david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: 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 Ian Pratt wrote: > Doesn't seem much point running 32 bit paravirtualized guests (it will > still run 32 bit user space), and it makes life easier not to. However, > there are plans to run 32 and 64 bit unmodified guests on a 64 bit > hypervisor (as well as 64bit paravirtualized guests) using Intel VT > extensions. Aha: I was wondering how the Xen developers could be so confident that VT would be sufficient to run Windows under Xen, given that no details of VT have been announced publically; this explains it. -- David Hopwood ------------------------------------------------------- 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/