On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 00:17 +0100, Wijnand Wiersma wrote: > > HVM is not good for non-Windows guests. Without accelerated guest > > drivers disk and network I/O is very limited. Xen Enterprise ships with > > optimized guest drivers for Windows. > Then it is a useless feature in my opinion.
This is a needed feature for Windows guests and other OSes which are not likely to be ported to Xen as paravirtualized guests. It is also the only way which currently allows you to run OpenBSD under the Xen Hypervisor. > > Paravirtualization is probably the way to go for OpenBSD, but I found no > > info on the status of the Dom0/DomU ports to Xen. > That is indeed high on my wish list, I hope there will be big news soon. This is probably the best approach, but it does not work today. ciao Luca
