[PLUG] How to confirm OSS support before hardward purchase?

MJang mike at mommabears.com
Tue Sep 12 02:56:40 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 14:37 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Ted Kubaska wrote:
> 
> > This VT.. is this the so-called Van der Pool technology?
> 
> Sorry, I don't know the Intel code names. It's the virtualization 
> stuff (like AMD's Pacifica), that allows hypervisors to run unmodified 
> x86 operating systems in lightweight virtual machines., 

Right, most closely associated with Xen. Without VT, Xen only works with
"paravirtualized" (i.e. Xen modified) OSes. The Xen developers have
reportedly modified Win2003 Server to work in a paravirtualized
environment, but can't release it w/o MS permission.




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