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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: _OSI(Linux) == false

To: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: _OSI(Linux) == false
From: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:31:05 +0800
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>From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@xxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:59 AM
>To: Xu, Anthony
>Cc: tgingold@xxxxxxx; xen-ia64-devel
>Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: _OSI(Linux) == false
>
>On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:47 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote:
>> >From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@xxxxxx]
>> >
>> >   HP has HPUX, OpenVMS, and NonStop.  There's also BS2000, the
>> >mainframe OS Fujitsu-Siemens now has PV support for.  From
wikipedia, it
>> >looks like Bull also supports another mainframe OS, GCOS, on ia64.
>> >Probably a sampling of research OSes available as well.
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>      Have you tried to run HPUX, OpenVMX and NonStop on top of
VTI-domain?
>
>   No I haven't.  Tristan has played a little bit with OVMS.  My guess
>is that none of them will work without some VTI domain support tweaking
>and none of them will have support for any of the Qemu NICs.  BTW, has
>anyone thought about writing a Qemu device model for an Intel e1000
NIC?
>Seems like it would be a good contribution since the current set of PC
>class NICs aren't supported by some of the server class OSes.  Thanks,

        Some guy in Qemu community sent out e100 NIC emulation code, it
is very simple, and it doesn't work well even with linux Guest. Xin is
investigating this; hopefully we can make e100 work for guest Windows.
But we don't commit this. :-)


Thanks
Anthony

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