FreeBSD on EC2 via defenestration

Post by rwmj » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 6:23 AM UTC

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #13

rwmj wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean Windows para -virtualization. This is never going to happen though. Not because Windows PV is not possible. Windows was ported to Xen PV in the distant past because Cambridge University had a Windows source license. The reason it's not going to happen is because with the latest chips and 64 bit, hardware full virtualization is faster than paravirt. Paravirt on x86-64 can't use the i386 segmentation t…

By segmentation trick, do you mean the same thing that Russ Cox's 9vx (by way of vx32) does?