Sun internally had it working for some time now. However, it is now publicly available for OpenSolaris. For the moment, you still can't have a Solaris dom0, only a domU.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/howto/ -Sam -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfied Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:29 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Xen Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2006-02-16 at 11:03 -0600, Tom Shilson wrote: > >>Xen is a Linux form of VMWare. It allows you to run multiple instances of >>Linux. Instead of creating a virtual machine, however, Xen shares the >>kernel. Compared to VMWare (or zVM) it is limited because of this. I have >>never used it. I believe that it is an OpenSource project. > > > Xen isn't Linux specific. Nor does it share a kernel. Xen is a true > hypervisor when running with Intel VT capable processors and very close > to it when running on a generic x86. Performance is generally within > 2-3% of native as a result of the para-virtualisation techniques used > with a Xen aware kernel on a non VT capable processor. > > It is indeed free software. and SUN reports booting Solaris under it. _I_ am looking forward to booting Windows XP, and Mac OS X would be handy too. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
