From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263419AbTJBQkD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:40:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263422AbTJBQkC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:40:02 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([140.239.227.29]:27345 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263419AbTJBQkA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:40:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:39:11 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Keir Fraser Cc: John Bradford , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization Message-ID: <20031002163911.GD13652@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Keir Fraser , John Bradford , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200310021515.h92FF1N3000239@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:30:04PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote: > No --- Xen runs on x86 but exports a different 'x86-xeno' virtual > architecture that OSes must be ported to (basically, privileged ops > must go through Xen for validation). > > x86 != x86-xeno, so Xen will not run on Xen. And the amount of work to port the architecture-specific porions of Xen to x86-xeno would be.....? :-) - Ted