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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization
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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.

-- Keir
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