From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] another VM type host Message-Id: <20040203093839.108bde89.martin@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <200402020905.i12952jE019197@skeeve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:38:39 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cbcbcf46-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:19:48 -0700 (MST) ron minnich wrote: > I am talking to those guys and trying to find some time to do this port. I suspect you mean "the port to get Plan 9 running under Xen", but wouldn't the reverse also be rather interesting, viz "the port to get Xen running under Plan 9"? This would be a lot easier/possible than porting vmware to Plan 9, since Xen is open source. BTW, Xen isn't the only "VM for an incomplete machine"-type of VM project, the Plex86 project has recently announced that they are abandoning the full-VM (a la vmware) approach for the cut-down VM approach. AFAIK, they have also taken a similar approach to device and network access. Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}