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Re: Cache coherency, clustering, and Kernel virtualization


From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:49:11 +0200

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

And why reinvent the wheel? Xen is providing exactly that -- light
weight virtualisation similiar to what IBM provided in hardware.
It has the big advantage of being proven technology and does support
multiple kernel already.

I can only say that Xen looks like a good idea also - it's a VM system that doesn't really depend on host (and if you have hardware VM support) guest OS, and it even has some virtual system migration (over the network) built-in. Supporting Xen would automatically mean DFly can run more available guest OS-es, not only DFly.


On the other hand, while NetBSD has got Xen running relatively easy, FreeBSD is still struggling with it, with no usable results.

See:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq

(go for Xen 3.0)



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