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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Xen viridian support/features

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:15:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:23:26AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:44:25PM -0700, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
> > > I don't normally news-post, cross-post, or even post to devel at all, but 
> > > I thought this was quite interesting.
> > > 
> > > Apparently, Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of device driver code for 
> > > inclusion in the staging kernel.  
> > >
> > > Perhaps this is a step towards paravirtualized Windows guests in Xen?  
> > > That would be quite compelling.
> > > 
> > 
> > Xen already supports "Enlightened" Win2008/Windows7 (and Vista?) when you
> > enable viridian=1 in the HVM domU cfg.
> > 
> 
> Then again I'm not sure "how much" of viridian stuff Xen currently
> supports.. 
> 
> Maybe someone else has more knowledge about this? 
> 

CCing Keir.. maybe he has some thoughts about this.

-- Pasi

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