From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: Microsoft plans 'hypervisor' for Longhorn Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:39:14 -0400 Message-ID: <9e473391050607183974e20bcf@mail.gmail.com> References: <000b01c56bc5$b6a1bef0$0201a8c0@hawk> Reply-To: Jon Smirl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 08 Jun 2005 02:21:04 +0100, M.A. Williamson wrote: > > Article mentions Xen as Microsoft's competition. Could Apple's x86 switch require Intel VT too? The one year delay lines up with VT availability. Requiring Intel VT would probably lock out all existing machines since it would be difficult to emulate on existing chips. Intel VT specific shuts out AMD which matches their announcement. The simple reason for requiring VT is to get MS Windows app support. Windows would run in another VM. A virtual graphics card would then make it appear inside the Mac display. Running an SMB server internally allows partitions to be shared. Daemons in each OS could export the clipboard over a virtual network to make DND work and do things like mouse handoff. Any rumors of Apple working on a hypervisor? --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com