Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:45:37 -0400 | From | Karim Yaghmour <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization |
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Keir Fraser wrote: > Our aim was to implement an efficient VMM for commodity hardware, and > that really means x86. We're considering a port to x86-64, but so far > we're limited in man power (this is why *BSD is not yet available, for > example).
I understand. Obviously infinite resources are everyone's wish ;)
What type of an effort would it be to port Xen to a new architecture? I haven't looked at the code, so I can't say, but I'm really looking for a rough approximation: 1 man-month, 10 man-months, 100 man-months?
Thanks,
Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 514-812-4145
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