Re: [Xen-devel] xen intro q

[Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Chris Mason wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm taking a quick look at the xen internals, and it looks as though xen
> creates a layer that runs directly on the hardware, and this layer is
> basically a stripped down and modified  linux i386.
>
> This would mean any fixes for linux and new hardware support need to be
> explicitly ported to xen.  Are there plans to instead have a xen
> enabling patch for the linux kernel?  This should make it much easier to
> maintain xen over time.
A Linux-with-Xen-hardware-abstraction-built-in would be nice because xen 
would get 10.000.000 new users overnight (eheheh well, at least 100 
times more than current users). But this would be a "fat-xen".
Xen developers want a "very-slim-xen" that can become the 
next-generation-BIOS.
Fat-xen and slim-xen both have pros/cons... That's a very long discussion :)

(I don't even know if it's possible to make this fat-xen...)

Regards,
Nuno 'today-feeling-like-joining-words' Silva


> -chris


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