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Re: [Xen-users] will there be an Alpha port ?
> You'll need to get hold of an Alpha architecture manual and grok through all
> the lowlevel code in the kernel: firstly, you'll need to be familiar with
> this to get Xen itself to run on Alpha, secondly you'll need to modify this
> for the Alpha port of XenLinux. A good understanding of the Linux memory
> management code would be useful too.
that is gonna be the hard part for me.
> It'll probably be a nicer architecture to virtualise than x86 (which is
> really
> hard)
thats my point :)
>From theory, I think it ought to be easier to code Xen for Alpha first, rather
>than
reverse engineer the x86 source, then try to make things smarter for Alpha ...
> but you should still expect it to be a rather major project.
An other topic which leads me to time dependency ... a dep which is not to be
discussed in here.
> I assume you've thought about UML but want better performance? If you need
> to
> get the server up and running soon, you might also like to consider Linux
> Vserver http://linux-vserver.org/. This is a kernel patch that gives you
> virtual machine functionality similar to FreeBSD jails / Solaris Zones. You
> can't do live-migration or run multiple difference operating systems but you
> *can* give several people "root" on virtual servers (running multiple
> distributions), with near native performance.
>
> For a simple way to install a vserver, you could try using "debootstrap", or
> just untar the Gentoo base tarballs (if there's an Alpha port of Gentoo???).
no; I found vserver hard to install on Gentoo, hard to conf on Debian, and
several
friends told me that they are not that much secure.
I really think that xen on Alpha would be EFFICIENT /and/ SECURE.
***
so answer to my question is:
yes it is feasable, but nobody planed it yet.
--
DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre (aka DoubleHP ) http://www.demaine.info/
\_o< If computing were an exact science, IT engineers would not have work >o_/
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