Hello from Gregg C Levine Indeed. I remember spending an interesting several hours at their NYC offices, one of the scheduled items that were discussed was indeed Xen. It happens I raised that very same issue. They did confirm that the only way to manage something when using Xen and their OS, was to install Linux first, and then their OS. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kielek, Samuel > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Xen > > Sun internally had it working for some time now. However, it is now > publicly available for OpenSolaris. For the moment, you still can't have > a Solaris dom0, only a domU. > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/howto/ > > -Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Summerfied > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Xen > > > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2006-02-16 at 11:03 -0600, Tom Shilson wrote: > > > >>Xen is a Linux form of VMWare. It allows you to run multiple > instances of > >>Linux. Instead of creating a virtual machine, however, Xen shares the > >>kernel. Compared to VMWare (or zVM) it is limited because of this. I > have > >>never used it. I believe that it is an OpenSource project. > > > > > > Xen isn't Linux specific. Nor does it share a kernel. Xen is a true > > hypervisor when running with Intel VT capable processors and very > close > > to it when running on a generic x86. Performance is generally within > > 2-3% of native as a result of the para-virtualisation techniques used > > with a Xen aware kernel on a non VT capable processor. > > > > It is indeed free software. > > and SUN reports booting Solaris under it. _I_ am looking forward to > booting Windows XP, and Mac OS X would be handy too. > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tourist pics > http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ > > do not reply off-list > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
