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Re: [Xen-devel] Microsoft plans 'hypervisor' for Longhorn
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] Microsoft plans 'hypervisor' for Longhorn |
| From: | aq <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:55:40 -0500 |
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On 08 Jun 2005 02:21:04 +0100, M.A. Williamson <maw48@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Article mentions Xen as Microsoft's competition. > > The MS hypervisor is a very interesting beast from our PoV: * drivers run > in a dom0-like "parent" partition (cut down Longhorn) * "child" partitions > devices are plumbed through this * VMM-aware OSes can use APIs called > "enlightenments" (don't you usually achieve enlightenment through > practising Zen? :-D) to avoid full-virt penalties > > Their roadmap includes live migration and suspend-resume, USB > virtualisation, etc. > > It'll be interesting to see if they require hypervisor-enabled hardware or > if they pull in the binary scanning / rewriting from VirtualPC. It'll also > be interesting to see just how open their "open" device / VMM interfaces > are: in particular, can Linux support them as a guest, can Xen fake them > out to boost performance when running Longhorn guests? yeah, i like this point: the chance for Xen to fake their hypervisor to run Longhorn is really interesting ;-) regards, aq _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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