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[Xen-devel] win4lin-like porting of win98 to xen?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] win4lin-like porting of win98 to xen?
From: Mikhail Ramendik <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:17:08 +0400
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Hello,

I have a question. If it's dumb, I apologize in advance ;)

There is one previous successful attempt to do "partial virtualization",
adapting the guest OS to increase performance. It's Win4Lin, and they
adapted win9x by installing drivers.

Now, perhaps the same kind of adaptation could be possible for xen?

I understand WinXP is better than Win98; but the XP port has licensing
problems. The structure of Win98, as far as I understand, allows to
replace many things with "drivers" while not including Microsoft
proprietary code (except redistributable things like the DDK). This kind
of port could be made public.

In this case xen would probably get a large userbase, as it would be an
open-source, and probably more versatile (i.e. one could add MIDI
support), replacement for win4lin. I, for one, would switch at once.

So, is this possible?

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik





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