Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:44 UTC
This article is intended mainly for developers who are new to Xen and who want to know more about it. The Xen VMM (virtual machine monitor) is an open-source project that is being developed in the computer laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK. It enables us to create many virtual machines, each of which runs an instance of an operating system. These guest operating systems can be a patched Linux kernel, version 2.4 or 2.6, or a patched NetBSD/FreeBSD kernel.
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RE[2]: Multiple architectures
by Mark Williamson on Thu 1st Sep 2005 20:41
in reply to "RE: Multiple architectures"
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x86_64 will be supported in the next stable release, which should be Real Soon Now(TM), as will Vanderpool support (i.e. initial support for running Windows guests although it'll likely need optimising later).
IA64 should be in beta by then, PPC will follow a bit later since it's been underway less time.
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2005-07-06
I don't believe any architectures other than x86/x86-64 are supported at the moment.
Also the multiple architectures bit doesn't refer to running x86 code on, say, ARM, but instead running PPC code on PPC processors, IA64 code on IA64 processors, and so forth.