Re: news about Sun's xen variant

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 07:13:40AM -0400, 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.
> 
> Xen also supports powerpc. What's missing is someone doing the port on the
> NetBSD side.

With Xen 3.3 powerpc support (which was 64bit-only anyway)
has been removed. The maintainer (IBM) no longer had an interest in
maintaining it and noone else took it over.

Christoph