I was wondering what the current state is with windows on xen? Secondly, i had a go at building the vmware vmmon kernel module within dom0. It built ok, but trying to insert it into the running kernel with insmod caused a segmentation fault from insmod, and left the module in an initialising state, unusable, and also unable to be removed without a reboot. I was wondering if anyone else has had a go at this and had better luck? -- Jody Belka knew (at) pimb (dot) org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
> I was wondering what the current state is with windows on xen?I don''t think we''re ever likely to see the current port available on ''general release''. It may (or may not) be possible to re-implement the XP port as just a new HAL, exploiting Xen''s shadow pagetable support. It''s something to look in to...> Secondly, i had a go at building the vmware vmmon kernel module > within dom0. It built ok, but trying to insert it into the running > kernel with insmod caused a segmentation fault from insmod, and > left the module in an initialising state, unusable, and also unable > to be removed without a reboot. I was wondering if anyone else has > had a go at this and had better luck?vmmon assumes its running in ring 0 on the bare metal. There''s no chance of VMware running under Xen (as opposed to the other way round). Our aim with XenLinux was to implement the full user space binary API. vmmon would require a very complete x86 virtualization to work. [Incidentally, does VMware even work recursively?] Ian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:44:18 +0100 Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:> [Incidentally, does VMware even work recursively?]According to this the installer detects it is running inside another VMWare: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~konrad/References/notes/CS253-VMStacking-Presentation.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:44:18PM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:> > I was wondering what the current state is with windows on xen? > > I don''t think we''re ever likely to see the current port available > on ''general release''. > > It may (or may not) be possible to re-implement the XP port as > just a new HAL, exploiting Xen''s shadow pagetable support. It''s > something to look in to...any idea then if/when this might happen if it does? and how long it might possibly take if so? having tried out QEmu, to see if it''d be feasible, it''s horribly slow. without windows support for xen i won''t be able to run xen on my primary server, which would be a shame.> [Incidentally, does VMware even work recursively?]Nope, appears not having googled a bit. -- Jody Belka knew (at) pimb (dot) org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel