From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M Afifi Subject: Fwd: Windows... Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:24:51 +0000 Message-ID: <9a948a5705011900245103f7ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <41EC8095.7030300@devrandom.net> <9a948a57050119002337dd9000@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: M Afifi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9a948a57050119002337dd9000@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: Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Thanks for the information everyone. It's a shame that Microsoft are seeing it mainly as a research opportunity when clearly Xen has already attracted some rather big players and customers. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:41:38 +0000, Steven Hand wrote: > > >Mark A. Williamson wrote: > >> Since there's VT code being integrated into Xen currently it seems > >>reasonable to assume that when VT hardware comes out, Windows will Just > >>Work (TM) but I don't know the concrete plans. I may be wrong... > > > >Well, I think that even if Windows itself can run unmodified, there'd > >still need to be a virtual BIOS, virtual VGA device, virtual IDE > >controller, virtual NIC device, etc. They'd need to be emulations of > >real devices, at least they'd have to be availabe until drivers can be > >loaded (and written, of course) for Windows that can take over and > >bypass the emulated devices. So the support for Intel VT/AMD Pacifica is > >just the first step of many, really. > > Some support for fully virtual devices is already checked into the > -unstable tree (see tools/ioemu). This is useful for start-of-day, > but in practice for performance one would replace these drivers with > Xen-aware paravirtualized ones after install. > > cheers, > > S. > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt