Tuesday, September 9, 2008

[THIN] Re: quick question on virtualization platforms

> That is interesting, can you elaborate on these other OS requirements?

In my experience (limited) with Xen, which pre-dates the Citrix acquisition
of Xen, support for the Xen hypervisor had to be compiled into the kernel of
the guest OS.

The Wikipedia article for paravirtualization states: "However, operating
systems must be explicitly ported to run on top of a paravirtualized VMM.."

I presume this is still the case, but then again I don't have any recent
experience with Xen or any paravirtualized environment.

- Bob


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