Great Caesar's ghost! How the heck can you come to that conclusion? I think I know. Did you misinterpret the following quote? Or maybe a news report you read made the misinterpretation?
"With assistance from Microsoft Research, we have a port of Windows XP to Xen nearly complete, and are planning a FreeBSD 4.8 port in the near future (volunteers welcome!)." My interpretation is that Microsoft Research is helping with the WinXP port only. The above quote is from Google's cache of www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/, since the original site is down at the moment. John Hebert At 22:58 10/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: >On 2003.10.03 08:34 Nashid Hasan wrote: > > "Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of > multiple > > guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and > resource > > isolation. Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the > GNU > > General Public License. We have a fully functional port of Linux 2.4 > running > > over Xen, and regularly use it for running demanding applications like > MySQL, > > Apache and PostgreSQL. Any Linux distribution should run unmodified > over the > > ported OS." > > > > > > Here is the link: > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ > > > > > > Check out it's performance against native linux, VMware and UML-- pretty > > impressive. > > > > > > --Nash > >Impressive indeed, but is this Microsoft funded effort how Microsoft will >take over the BIOS? Is Xen small enough to be made into >firmware? Virtual Machines are a great way to keep legacy M$ software >running in a free world, but my paranoid mind has reversed the use. > >http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/performance.html > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
