Re: Xen kernels in FC5t1

[John Summerfied <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Andy Burns wrote:
> Gawain Lynch wrote:
>
> > Are the Xen kernels in FC5t1 *supposed* to be in a working state
>
>
> Not tried them yet ...
>
> > has anyone had any luck in getting the hypervisor kernel to boot as a
> > VMware guest?
>
>
> Is it even *fair* to expect that to work? Surely the Xen hypervisor 

Why is it unfair

> needs unfettered access to the real processor?

AFAIK the whole idea of virtual machines originated with something, I 
think cp, on some models of IBM System/360. In System/370 it became VM 
(and the core of it remains cp) and has had more-or-less that name  ever 
since.

One of the important features of VM is that it's self-hosting: one can 
run VM under VM (ad nauseum).

All VM requires is unfettered access to the virtual hardware.

It might be, I'm not expert in this, that for self-hosting (or hosting 
under VMware) of Xen to work (ow work well) it will need virtualisation 
capabilities to be released by Intel and AMD in the near future.

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John

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