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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?

To: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Time for hybrid virtualization?
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:43:45 -0700
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On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 07:24 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> one more point: in the very early time, Xen/ia64 was able to run an
> unmodified linux kernel as dom0.  It was simply privified (either during
> installation or at loading time).  Most of the code is still here.
> 
> So we have a possible backup for non-VT processor.

Hi Tristan,

  Good point, Peter Chubb has had some pretty good results from his
"after burning" techniques iirc.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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