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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?

To: "Jarod Wilson" <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?
From: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:57:52 +0800
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Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Alex Williamson wrote:
>> I would expect
>> RHEL5.x will always support a PV dom0 and not require VT processors
>> for Xen.
> 
> Absolutely. And as I mentioned, since RHEL5 supports both PV and HVM
> guests, we're pretty well committed to whatever ships in RHEL6 doing
> the same -- or at least providing an easy upgrade path, so that any
> and all guests created under RHEL5 will continue to be usable under
> RHEL6. 

Since RHEL5&6 supports PV,
If we run dom0/domU on VT mode,  how can we handle back-compatibility ?
run RHEL5&6 on new hypervisor.


Thanks
Anthony

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