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[Xen-users] Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux 
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| Subject: | [Xen-users] Re: Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux |  
| From: | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Date: | Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:49:38 +0200 |  
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| Theodore Tso, le Wed 03 Jun 2009 15:05:21 -0400, a écrit :
> What would be lost is dom0 support for other OS's, but really, is that
> such a major loss?
Yes.
> Linux has far better device driver support than Solaris or FreeBSD, so
> there is really that much gain in using some other OS for dom0?
Yes.
Thanks for taking that into account.
Samuel
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