Re: news about Sun's xen variant

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:15:10PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> Greg Troxel wrote:
> >http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080910.1.xml
> >
> >I don't really know anything about this, but if it is truly open source
> >or even perhaps not it would be nice to be able to run this on not just
> >i386/amd64 but sparc.
> 
> IIRC, xVM is Xen-based for x86 archs, and uses logical domains for SPARC 
>  (with hardware assisted instructions), which requires support for sun4v.
> 
> I am not sure that netbsd supports sun4v :( A quick search reveals that 
> freebsd is working on a port though.

No, NetBSD doesn't support it. 

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