On Dec 29 2006 15:24, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> >
>> > Does this mean my MAME and NESticle games will run even smoother?
>>
>> It means XEN becomes oboslete ;-)
>
> I just did a little more reading. It does look like KVM is a XEN competitor.
We've got way too much competitors. VT/KVM, VMware, QEMU, XEN, possibly
more. (No need to name them.)
> One issue is that it does not implement paravirtualization and thus
> only supports the new generation of CPUs with VT (Intel) or AMD-V
> (SVN?).
Software based [para]virtualization is already provided by xen and
vmware. It would be stupid to reinvent the wheel. KVM is basically a new
type of tyre however, designed only for specific roads.
> Especially in the Desktop world it is going to be a while before those
> are either routinely available.
>
> XEN OTOH can support Linux Guests with standard CPUs via
Does not support Windows OOTB.
> paravirtualization. (Xen too needs the new CPUs for Windows Guest
> OSes.)
Well no, there has been a patch to Windows to make it xen-compatible,
but Windows' EULA forbids distribution. (Which is what makes XEN useless
now since VMware is free.)
-`J'
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