On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:42:45AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > If you only want Linux on Linux, there is Xen (STFW). It doesn't run > regular kernels - they have a port of Linux to it, and there is an > ongoing port of WinXP to it.
Xen[1] is interesing because of their claim of only a few percent of performance loss in the guest machine. On the other hand, having to run a modified kernel[2] is a big turnoff for me. [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ [2] The Xen paper[3] has some choice bits on the effort required to port Linux to Xen vs the effort required to port XP to Xen. Let's just say that the Linux port is up and running and the XP port is Work In Progress. And have I mentioned that the project is partially sponsored by MS research? ;-) [3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/papers/2003-xensosp.pdf Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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