From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:45:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7C3A11.3060009@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A54aL-000576-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Keir Fraser wrote:
> Our aim was to implement an efficient VMM for commodity hardware, and
> that really means x86. We're considering a port to x86-64, but so far
> we're limited in man power (this is why *BSD is not yet available, for
> example).
I understand. Obviously infinite resources are everyone's wish ;)
What type of an effort would it be to port Xen to a new architecture?
I haven't looked at the code, so I can't say, but I'm really looking for
a rough approximation: 1 man-month, 10 man-months, 100 man-months?
Thanks,
Karim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-02 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-02 9:17 [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization Ian Pratt
2003-10-02 10:12 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-10-02 13:21 ` Oliver M. Bolzer
2003-10-02 14:25 ` Karim Yaghmour
2003-10-02 14:37 ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 14:45 ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2003-10-02 14:48 ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 15:15 ` John Bradford
2003-10-02 15:30 ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 16:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-02 17:23 ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-02 18:42 ` Karim Yaghmour
2003-10-02 18:53 ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-03 1:59 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-10-03 8:13 ` Ian Pratt
2003-10-03 10:12 ` Andreas Hauser
2003-10-03 10:29 ` Ian Pratt
2003-10-03 11:53 ` Andreas Hauser
2003-10-03 12:40 ` Ian Pratt
2003-10-03 8:19 ` John Bradford
2003-10-03 9:19 ` Keir Fraser
2003-10-03 10:47 ` John Bradford
2003-10-03 13:14 ` Doug McNaught
[not found] <CA95C29D57188841ABB072EA7357C00D02C13377@orsmsx402.jf.intel.com>
2003-10-03 1:50 ` Paul Brett
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