Re: Darwin and Xen?
Re: Darwin and Xen?
- Subject: Re: Darwin and Xen?
- From: Terry Lambert <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:49:27 -0800
On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:53 PM, Andreas Fink wrote:
On 14.02.2007, at 01:32, Rick Langschultz wrote:
Are there any ports out there that are trying to incorporate Xen
into XNU
I filed enhancement request 4686866 on 17-Aug-2006 about this.
It got closed without any comments or feedback. "Brave Apple" maybe
have done it in Leopard or "Bad Apple" doesnt even think its useful.
What do we (Apple Premium Developers) know. We are left in the dark
as usual (*big-sight*). I wonder why we sign a NDA at all when we
never get anything to see...
This is the wrong answer to his question.
Since Xen uses paravirtualization, you have to do things to the base
OS to make it work, that make it unable to work _without_ Xen being
there all the time, unless you are porting it to use Darwin as the
host kernel (then that's a Xen port, not a Darwin port).
The right answer to his question is to tell him whether or not anyone
in the Darwin community is currently trying to get Darwin ported over
to Xen; all of them have access to the Darwin source code.
Personally, I didn't answer because I don't know what all the Xen
people are doing, or if we are even on their radar at all. The last
time I saw them present anything was about 6 months ago when they were
on a short US tour, and they presented at BayLISA (<http://www.baylisa.org/
>), and they were complaining about Vanderpool. So the only thing I
could have said was "I don't know", which is not very useful
-- Terry
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