Cache coherency, clustering, and Kernel virtualization

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Sep 4 01:45:11 PDT 2006


On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:36:27AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Xen is the one that runs a linux kernel as the primary OS?  I really
>     have no desire to make DragonFly dependant on some other OS for 
>     features.

Yes and no. Xen itself needs a host kernel for the hardware support.
Current implementations are Linux and NetBSD for Xen3, FreeBSD support
is in progress (IIRC).

Joerg





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