From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] another VM type host
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 23:39:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AnsLE-0005do-8V@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:05:02 +0200." <200402020905.i12952jE019197@skeeve.com>
> 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?
The guest OS in VMware does too. The difference is they
punt on x86 compatibility, so that's why the OS must be ported.
They don't virtualize the video either, making it pretty darned
useless to me -- I can already run auth, terminal, and fs on
one laptop by using fossil.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-03 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-02 9:05 Aharon Robbins
2004-02-02 13:40 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-02 15:44 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-02-02 17:20 ` ron minnich
2004-02-02 17:19 ` ron minnich
2004-02-02 18:32 ` Matthias Teege
2004-02-02 19:13 ` a
2004-02-03 3:01 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 4:08 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-02-03 4:39 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2004-02-03 4:45 ` okamoto
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