From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Michaelson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: rminnich@lanl.gov Subject: Re: [9fans] xen port? Message-Id: <20040321172443.076993e8@dhcppc1> In-Reply-To: References: <237cdbb8.0403190517.1fb498c7@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:24:43 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3bd4ba28-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:52:30 -0700 (MST) ron minnich wrote: >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Leo Caves wrote: > >> I am interested to hear opinion on what xen might offer in the Plan >> 9/inferno world-view. > >my one interest was that I could run auth, fs, and term on one laptop. > >ron Me three. and, get around non-supported h/w by using a virtual machine instance which would be a longterm port available across changing pee cee hardware. xens website claims to reveal a lot of the underlying machine speed-wise. It may depend what you compare it to. -George