Re: [Xen-devel] Porting Xen

[David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Pratt wrote:
> Doesn't seem much point running 32 bit paravirtualized guests (it will
> still run 32 bit user space), and it makes life easier not to. However,
> there are plans to run 32 and 64  bit unmodified guests on a 64 bit
> hypervisor (as well as 64bit paravirtualized guests) using Intel VT
> extensions.
Aha: <http://www.intel.com/research/print/cambridge_collab.pdf>

I was wondering how the Xen developers could be so confident that VT
would be sufficient to run Windows under Xen, given that no details
of VT have been announced publically; this explains it.

--
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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