The first stable Xen release

Posted Oct 2, 2003 13:54 UTC (Thu) by pspinler (subscriber, #2922)
Parent article: The first stable Xen release

Given this statement: "Xen requires guest operating systems to be ported to run over it", it appears that Xen is more a competitor to UML than to VMWare.

I, at least, own VMWare in order to run Windows apps on my linux box. Obviously, MS is unlikely to ever port any version of windows to Xen.

-- Pat

The first stable Xen release

Posted Oct 2, 2003 14:12 UTC (Thu) by jmitchel (guest, #11611) [Link]

However, the Xen developer had the MS academic source license and has aparently made great strides toward porting XP. Whether this will ever be distro'd beyond the Academic Source License people is a good question, but much of the tech work is done.

The first stable Xen release

Posted Oct 2, 2003 15:05 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Actually this sounds more like the "New" Plex86 project (http://plex86.sourceforge.net/). than UML. UML isn't really a virtual machine system, but Linux running as an user process (or rather, set of processes).