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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:45:45 -0600
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
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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