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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Date: 03 Oct 2003 09:14:08 -0400
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John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes:

> I think we might be talking about different things -  what I meant was
> if you run a kernel compiled to support Xen on X86 natively without
> Xen, is there a big performance penalty, not if you run a single VM in
> Xen? 

My understanding from reading the paper is that you can't do
this--'x86-xen' is a separate "architecture" and won't boot on the
bare metal.

-Doug