Luke S Crawford wrote: > > > There is no reason why paravirtualized OSs need to be similar; I'm happily > running OpenSolaris, NetBSD and Linux guests under xen. But they do > need to be paravirtualized to work under Xen, and that's probably not > ever going to happen to windows. > Windows has been paravirtualised to work under Xen - it was part of the original project at Cambridge. However, you had to have Windows source code to apply the necessary hypervisor changes, and about the time that Microsoft produced/bought Virtual PC they withdrew the support at Cambridge.
So, you are likely correct that we'll not see Windows support (again), even though the code is already written. - Richard _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
