Re: Re: xen to replace vmware

[Joel CARNAT <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

humpf... won't be released next week... :)

what about comparison between xen/vmware/bochs/virtuapc ?
I mean, take your generic Pentium4 2GHz with 256Mo of RAM and 80Go of
IDE disk. Will xen run two OS cooler than those other softs ?

On Wed, Sep 29 2004 - 13:35, Dick Davies wrote:
> * Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost> [0910 13:10]:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Dick Davies wrote:
> > >only if you sign your life away (theres' no publically available windows 
> > >port
> > >to xen ).
> > 
> > What is the procedure to get Windows/xen?
> > Where do I have to sign, what do I have to pay, ...?
> 
> You take a silver dollar down to the crossroads and wait till midnight ?
> 
> 
> The 2.0 readme ( 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/README ) says:
> 
> "The Windows XP port is nearly finished. It's running user space
> applications and is generally in pretty good shape thanks to some hard
> work by a team over the summer.  Of course, there are issues with
> releasing this code to others.  We should be able to release the
> source and binaries to anyone that has signed the Microsoft academic
> source license, which these days has very reasonable terms. We are in
> discussions with Microsoft about the possibility of being able to make
> binary releases to a larger user community. Obviously, there are
> issues with product activation in this environment which need to be 
> thought through."
> 
> Gotta be worth a mail to the xen list about (unless you want the blues, of 
> course).
> 
> 
> -- 
> The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
> brings wisdom.
>               -- H. L. Mencken
> Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns

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