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Re: [Xen-users] How do unmodified guests work with Xen?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How do unmodified guests work with Xen?
From: Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:09:16 +0100
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On Wednesday 25 January 2006 07:59, Stephan Austermühle wrote:
> Hi!
>
> pjn@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> > I am also interested in how this process is accomplished. I understand
> > that headless
> > installs of w3k server are possible on equipment that supports EMS but am
> > confounded by how hardware device driver support is provided in Xen at
> > the moment for this operating system?
>
> Is there really nobody out there who can tell some technical details?

AFAIK it just works like it does in qemu, bochs, vmware, ...
The guest sees an (S)VGA and network device, accesses to that (virtual) device 
are trapped and passed to an hardware emulator.

/Ernst

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