[PLUG] Xen and the Art of OS Maintenance

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Jason R. Martin wrote:

> Last I checked, Xen requires support from the OS you wish to run under it,
> which is why only open-source OSs currently work with it. The researchers
> who developed it got some version of Windows (2000?) working under it but
> were not able to release the changes they had to make to Windows for
> licensing reasons.

Jason,

   I see.

> VMware is able to emulate the entire hardware environment, hence the
> ability to run almost anything under it.

   Yes. I've been using this since their pre-1.0 beta versions.

Thanks,

Rich

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