Tracy R Reed wrote:
It's not a matter of Xen not supporting Windows. Nothing needs to be changed in Xen to make Windows work. It is either Windows not supporting Xen or Intel hardware not supporting full virtualization which would allow operating systems to be virtualized without any modification to the OS. But the next generation of Intel and AMD will correct a deficiency in the cpu design so full virtualization will be possible. At that point I don't know how Windows could possibly know it is being virtualized.
Xen is basically an OS. You may argue with this, but if it manages hardware and provides and API to that hardware, it's an OS. It will eventually grow in size and complexity until it gets like any other OS.
The difference is that Intel *controls* Xen. It can modify its chips and tell the Xen folks the fast/good/only way of doing stuff. Think DRM at the hardware level.
The evidence is the fact that no Intel board has ever gotten help to be used with any free BIOS project.
While I like the *idea* of virtualization, Xen is simply a gambit by Intel to take back control of the computer. I would be careful of abandoning the completely open source ways of doing this stuff.
In addition, some of the current Xen stuff smells like PR flak. Be wary, -a -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
