Re: [Xen-users] POWER5 & XEN

["M.A. Williamson" <maw48@xxxxxxxxx>]

IBM people are working on the Xen PPC port ;-) This is based on rHype, 
IBM's open source research hypervisor (not the one they sell). I believe 
the intention is for it to be compatible with the existing IBM / PPC 
hypervisor interface.
sHype is IBM's experimental hypervisor with mandatory access control 
extensions (like SELinux but at the virtual machine, rather than the OS 
level). Another team from IBM are working on porting these extensions to 
Xen. This security work ("XenSE") isn't for fixing bugs in Xen but rather 
to enable a new level of security.
A particularly nice application for Xen would be enabling load balancing 
across clusters of IBM's PPC970 based blades. Another nice side effect of 
this work is that you'll be able to use the same Xen-based virtual machine 
management tools across all platforms (x86, x86_64, PPC, IA-64) because 
they'll all run Xen.
Cheers,
Mark

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