From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263381AbTJBOmh (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:42:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263387AbTJBOmh (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:42:37 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:55818 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263381AbTJBOmf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:42:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3F7C3A11.3060009@opersys.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:45:37 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keir Fraser CC: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 514-812-4145