Re: [Xen-users] A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen

[Wesley Parish <wes.parish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In relation to this, has anyone considered using the colinux hacks?  They're 
essentially a set of XP device drivers, IIRC.

Wesley Parish

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:37, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Following on from the previous discussions about Microsoft
> > products working under Xen, what is the status of the work
> > done on the XP port?
>
> The XP port was written for Xen 1.0, which was quite different in a number
> of respects.
>
> > Clearly the full port would not be available but I presume
> > that some driver support may have been developed for the port
> > to work.
>
> I've not seen the code, but I imagine there is driver code that could be
> reused.  Exactly how useful it'd be is not clear: the Xen driver interfaces
> have changed a bit since then, although there would still be some
> commonality.
>
> > What is that status and availability of the driver support
> > to enable it under Xen?
>
> Work is underway to make the paravirtualised device drivers run under
> otherwise fully-virtualised Linux.  Once the implementation approach has
> been agreed upon and completed, somebody should (in principle) be able to
> apply the same approach to Windows.  This could usefully employ the drivers
> from the original port, but there's still going to be a load of work
> implementing stuff like a XenStore interface, grant tables support, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark

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