Xen Can Run Windows Now Was Re:Linux World Canada Show, April 24-26, 2006

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Xen 3.O along with the VT extensions of Intel or the Pacifica extensions of AMD 
can run WinXP as an unmodified guest OS.

Whether such motherboards are out now, I don't know.

To quote from the Xen 3.0 User Manual:

With hardware CPU virtualization as provided by Intel VT and AMD Pacifica 
technology, the ability to run an unmodified guest OS kernel is available. No 
porting of the OS is required, although some additional driver support is 
necessary within Xen itself. Unlike traditional full virtualization hypervisors, 
which suffer a tremendous performance overhead, the combination of Xen and VT or 
Xen and Pacifica technology complement one another to offer superb performance 
for para-virtualized guest operating systems and full support for unmodified 
guests running natively on the processor. Full support for VT and Pacifica 
chipsets will appear in early 2006.

Ivan.
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