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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 on xen
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:45:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405270745130.21178-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a040526223324c2f98a@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Russ Cox wrote:

> > >presumably this is without graphics?
> >
> > why? if xen provides a simple VGA, surely this can be with grafix?
>
> my understanding is that xen, in contrast to vmware,
> does not virtualize the vga display.  each guest operating system
> has to know how to drive it.  so it's not helpful for the
> "avoid hacking aux/vga" problem.

sure. the only mistake one could make is to assume that the current state
of things is the permanent state.

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-27 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-27  1:51 [9fans] Re: alef on sources Matthew Swank
2004-05-27  2:14 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-27  2:20   ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-27 16:26     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-05-28  1:25       ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-05-28  3:47         ` dvd
2004-05-28  5:12           ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-28  6:20             ` Nigel Roles
2004-05-28  6:38               ` lucio
2004-05-28  6:52                 ` Nigel Roles
2004-05-28  8:59         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-05-28 19:34           ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-27  4:21   ` ron minnich
2004-05-27  4:39     ` [9fans] plan9 on xen Russ Cox
2004-05-27  5:14       ` George Michaelson
2004-05-27  5:33         ` Russ Cox
2004-05-27  5:43           ` George Michaelson
2004-05-27 13:45           ` ron minnich [this message]
2004-05-27 13:44         ` ron minnich
2004-05-27 13:42       ` ron minnich
2004-05-27  5:10     ` [9fans] Re: alef on sources Christopher Nielsen
2004-05-27  8:05       ` C H Forsyth
2004-05-27 10:25         ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-27 10:15       ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-27 18:59         ` Christopher Nielsen
2004-05-27 13:43       ` ron minnich

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