Evan Lavelle wrote:
> Mark Johnson wrote:
> 
>> There is a bug in 3.0.3 - 3.1.2 Xen where Solaris
>> doesn't run in xVM on Intel machines. We have a patch
>> which fixes it out xVM gate (which Intel helped us with).
> 
> Sorry - what's "xVM"? HVM?

It's was our copyright friendly term :-) The term
has taken on a life of it's own and means much more
now though....



>> We have tried to submit it once upstream and it
>> didn't get accepted initially.  We need to try
>> again or get the patch out so RedHat, SUSE can
>> add it to their current distros.
>>
>> The bug doesn't exist in 3.2 due to a large change
>> in the VT code.
> 
> So I can run Solaris fully virtual on Intel-VT/Xen3.2? I might give this 
> a go, but there seem to a lot of problems with building 3.2 on the 
> xensource users list.

Yes.  You can also apply the patch yourself if you
would like... If you grab our source, the fix is the
following mercurial mq patch
   intel-realmode-fixes




MRJ


> Boris - I'm using Xen because - well, because. :)
> Never tried VMware, and already gots lots of stuff on Xen. Are you 
> saying that Solaris 10 will run fully virtualised on VMware with no loss 
> of performance? Is that possible?
> 
> - Evan
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