On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:55:26AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly:
>> You're basically not going to run paravirtualized windows in a linux
>> host, for example.
>
> Note that there is no technical reason why this cannot be done. The
> Xen guys at the University of Cambridge who started Xen had access to
> the Windows source code thanks to assistance of Microsoft's Cambridge
> research laboratories. They had a paravirtualized Windows running
> under Xen years ago. Of course Microsoft would not let them freely
> license that.
>

Citrix provides drivers for MS Windows that they claim solves this
problem. Of course this is for the commercial version of Xen.

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