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Re: [Xen-devel] Boot problem with x86 VxWorks on a XEN HVM

To: Andreas Hollmann <capjo@xxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Boot problem with x86 VxWorks on a XEN HVM
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:11:01 +0100
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On 11/10/07 16:00, "Andreas Hollmann" <capjo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why certain os like Minix and Vxwork don't boot on a XEN HVM, but work
> without problems on QEMU and will this problem be fixed in future
> versions of XEN?

This is probably a vmxassist issue, in which case vxworks would boot fine on
an AMD CPU (with SVM support). Vmxassist will be retired one day. Probably
not before Xen 3.2.0 though!

 -- Keir



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