Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization | Date | Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:30:04 +0100 | From | Keir Fraser <> |
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> > 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). > > Does it run recursively? I.E. can you can Xen within a Xen virtual > machine for development and testing purposes?
No --- Xen runs on x86 but exports a different 'x86-xeno' virtual architecture that OSes must be ported to (basically, privileged ops must go through Xen for validation).
x86 != x86-xeno, so Xen will not run on Xen.
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