From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacob Gorm Hansen Subject: Re: Xen and VMware Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:01:25 -0800 Message-ID: <42140905.9020106@diku.dk> References: <31F19452BA8B2042A359D849B74B1BF00C02B0@aklexch01.nsp.local> <4213CE2F.9040300@diku.dk> <9cde8bff05021618401c7efe29@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <9cde8bff05021618401c7efe29@mail.gmail.com> 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: aq Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org aq wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:50:23 -0800, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote: > >>VMWare does some amount of paravirtualization, with all the VMWare tools >>that you need to install. In fact, Xen seems to be going in VMWare's >>direction (shadow page tables, writable page tables, binary rewriting, >>Vanderpool support) in some areas. > > > Jacob, I am surprised here. Which code in Xen that does "binary rewriting"? I am not sure if it is still there, but one of the approaches to fixing the /lib/tls issue was to use binary rewriting of code within the guest OS. Jacob ------------------------------------------------------- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click