Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 11:42:39 EST


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
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