Subject: Re: Xen3 domain0 support is there !
To: Rainer =?iso-8859-1?Q?Brinkm=F6ller?= <rainer.brinkmoeller@web.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 07/03/2006 19:29:38
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 06:29:06PM +0200, Rainer Brinkmöller wrote:
> Great, thank you very much.
> 
> So, there is now Xen 3 dom0 and domU support for NetBSD -current (and 
> only -current for now, not for NetBSD 3).
> Will it be integrated into NetBSD 3.1?

No, it's too intrusive.

> 
> Could you please describe the difference to NetBSD/Xen2 in a short 
> pointlist?

There isn't much user-visible changes (things such as x86_64 support,
SMP in domains, etc ... are not supported yet). The tools have been over
a major rework, and don't use network sockets any more, which is very good
security-wise.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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