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

From: Paul Brett
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 20:51:58 EST


| -----Original Message-----
| From: xen-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:xen-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
| Of Karim Yaghmour
| Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:42 AM
| To: Keir Fraser
| Cc: Theodore Ts'o; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
| linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jacques Gelinas
| Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen
| high-performance x86 virtualization
|
|
|
| Keir Fraser wrote:
| > Full recursion needs full virtualization. Our approach
| offers much
| > better performance in the situations where full
| virtualization isn't
| > required -- i.e., where it's feasible to distribute a ported OS.
|
| ... So, thinking aloud here, I'm wondering in what
| circumstances I'd prefer using something as architecture
| specific as Xen over something as architecture independent
| as Jacques'

And of course, you can always run many vservers inside a single Xen
domain to get the best of both worlds.

Paul Brett
PlanetLab Support
Email: paul.brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel No: +1 503 712 4520

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