From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hopwood Subject: Re: Porting Xen Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:49:34 +0000 Message-ID: <41C9EBEE.7060400@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 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. 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 : # VT for Intel(R) Xeon(TM) and Pentium(R) 4 processor-based platforms will # be available on server, workstation, and desktop platforms in 2006. (This PDF may crash web browsers; save it and open it separately in a PDF reader.) -- 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/