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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] another VM type host
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Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2004 17:44:04 +0200
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They are helping, certainly; the Xen people got Win/XP source to do a port,
but it seems to be very Linux based.

They claim superior performance over vmware.  I personally view it as Yet
Another Research Project that gets 90% there but that I wouldn't want to
bet my business on.

In article <6.0.1.1.2.20040202083618.03a91398@mail.village.com> you write:
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Xen development backed by Microsoft?
>
>Not that that would necessarily be a stopper for anyone, but people should
>be aware of it.
>
>Wes Kussmaul
>
>
>At 04:05 AM 2/2/2004, you wrote:
>>A friend recently pointed me at:
>>
>>         http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
>>
>>The guest OS runs in x86 ring 1, instead of ring 0, so the OS must actually
>>be ported to work with it.  Has any 9developer seen this yet?
>>
>>Arnold