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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:35:10 +0100
From:      Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
To:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xen in Virtual Machine?
Message-ID:  <878wofxh6p.fsf@tabernacle.localnet>
References:  <87d4drxuvn.fsf@tabernacle.localnet> <1234213751.28262.3.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90902091328t45ce61b4q96fff69b52101a65@mail.gmail.com>

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Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> writes:

> Running Xen under vmware works fine (albeit slowly, and periodically
> exposing bugs in vmware) - I've done it many times. You're likely to
> run in to problems on less mature platforms that rely on hardware
> virtualization. However, there is no fundamental reason that
> paravirtualized guests should not work there.

I'll try VMWare. Thanks for the advice. I am still puzzled why Xen
presents such a problem for hardware-virtualization based VMMs. Maybe
the virtualization guys at our university can clear that up...

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to
program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C,
so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp)




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