> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote: > > Also unlike Xen/x86, Linux/ia64 with CONFIG_XEN enabled runs > > successfully on Xen, but also run natively on hardware (called > > "transparent paravirtualization"). > > That's neat indeed.
Thanks! > > This should be appealing to Linux/ia64 distributors as different > > kernels need not be shipped for running on Xen or running native. > > What's the performance impact for using transparanent > paravirtualization? > Is it sufficiently low that distributors really can consider using a > single kernel for both native and Xen "hosting"? I believe so. No benchmarks yet but I'm guessing it will be barely measurable. If someone who has experience measuring very small differences in benchmarks wants to give it a try, I would be happy to help! Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
