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RE: [Xen-users] RE: Compiling VMWare server against xen dom0 enabled ker

To: "Christian Horn" <chorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] RE: Compiling VMWare server against xen dom0 enabled kernel
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:33:04 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Christian Horn
> Sent: 26 September 2006 07:07
> To: Javier Guerra
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] RE: Compiling VMWare server against 
> xen dom0 enabled kernel
> 
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Javier Guerra wrote:
> > 
> > QEMU does work, but not kQEMU (for the same reasons)
> 
> For kqemu its only technical reasons though, maybe vmware 
> also prohibits
> this for business-reasons. Xen is OpenSource unlike vmware, so maybe
> technically the kqemu could be programmed to access the needed stuff
> on the xen-kernel running under dom0 ?

I'm pretty sure the kQEMU could be made to work under Xen, if anyone
feels strongly that it's needed. There's probably little reason for
VMWare to not work under Xen either, from purely technical reasons, but
they have business reasons, as you mention, to not want to do this... 

--
Mats
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> Christian
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