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RE: [Xen-devel] Implementation choices, XEN or KVM?

To: "Tim Deegan" <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Liu John" <bradevuu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Implementation choices, XEN or KVM?
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:25:00 +1000
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> 
> At 16:56 -0400 on 24 Jun (1308934602), Liu John wrote:
> > I will do research experiment using hypervisor. But I have not
decided the
> > platform; both XEN and KVM work for me(my work is about MMU,
specifically
> > shadow page tables). Though I prefer XEN, it seems XEN development
and
> > debugging are not easy. For example, every time you add some code in
> > hypervisor, you have to restart computer.
> 
> That's true.   However I usually find that when I make a mistake in
> hypervisor code the computer needs to be rebooted anyway. :)
> AIUI Xen can run under Qemu so the reboot time is not that long.
> 

Just out of curiosity, can xen be run inside xen yet? And does it make
debugging any easier?

James

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