RE: [Xen-users] Xen, vmware and XP/W2K3

["JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen)" <jhje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it possible to run vmware for XP and W2K3 on top of an xen setup?

VMware has kernel modules that must run in ring 0 (I know of vmnet and
vmmon), so as far as I have understood it, it is not possible. See also
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-05/msg00581.html
.

Running unmodified guests is (I think) a design goal of 3.x but it will
require hardware support (Vanderbilt CPUs). See also
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-06/msg00494.html
.

Cheers
-- Jan Holst Jensen, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark

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