Re: Porting Xen

[David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
>>On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:01 am, Ian Pratt wrote:
>>
>>>>once it has full hardware support, it won't be  
>>>>paravirtualization anymore, will be?
>>>
>>>Using the new hardware support Xen will have the capability to run
>>>unmodified guests, but where possible you'll still want to use
>>>paravirtualized guests as they'll offer better performance and benefit
>>>from being aware of the virtualized environment. 
>>
>>This looks very promising!
>>When will chips with the new hardware support become available?
> 
> Intel haven't yet announced when they will ship VT-capable chips.

<http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/otellini20040907.htm> says:

# In terms of other technologies, LaGrande Technology for reliability -- for
# security and Vanderpool technology, which is our virtualization capability
# for reliability, the combination those of two really gets enabled with
# [Windows] Longhorn in 2006, even though we have continued to develop it,
# you'll see a demo of it in a few seconds, this technology, in order to be
# mainstreamed, needs a robust, reliable operating system environment that
# we believe will be coincident with the Longhorn deployment in '06.

Also see <http://www.intel.com/update/issue/tim1204.pdf>:

# VT for Intel(R) Xeon(TM) and Pentium(R) 4 processor-based platforms will
# be available on server, workstation, and desktop platforms in 2006.

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-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>



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