Mailing List Archive: XEN and Windows

Scheer, Roque wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've already learned from this list that running Windows on top of XEN
> will not be possible soon (or ever).
>
> However, I would like to propose the idea of running XEN on top of
> Windows. That is, instead of having XEN being an hypervisor (a la VMWare
> ESX Server) one could have XEN working as a virtualization layer running
> on top of Windows (a la VMWare Workstation). One could then run multiple
> instances of the efficient (paravirtualized) ports of Linux or BSD on
> XEN, in parallel with windows applications.
>
> Would the new XEN 2.0 driver architecture ease the sharing of the
> windows drivers with the XEN domains (providing some driver conversion
> layer is provided)?

I don't think that XEN will run nicely (read: performance, xen's number
one advantage) on anything but bare metal. But the developers can answer
that better than me.

In the mean while you can check out Cooperative Linux at
http://colinux.org/ that does what you want.

Peace,
Nuno Silva

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