[Vm-dev] VM as a Xen guest

Javier Pimás elpochodelagente at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 18:15:39 UTC 2012


I never quite understood how Xen compares to things like VMWare or
VirtualBox. Is it the same mechanism? What are the differences?

Cheers,
Javier


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 3 December 2012 09:48, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/2/12, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> squeaknos would come close to this no?
> >
> > I assume so, where are the latest news about squeaknos?
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/squeaknos/
>
> They use, AFAIK, VMWare to debug their images, meaning that they do
> already run Squeak on a virtual machine - a virtual virtual machine
> machine? - so running on Xen shouldn't be fundamentally problematic. I
> think they just need more hands.
>
> frank
>
> > --Hannes
> >
> >>
> >> On 2012-12-02, at 15:17, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wonder if we could do something like this with Squeak. It would be
> neat
> >>> if the whole "Smalltalk wants to be a whole operating system" thing
> could
> >>> work for us for a change.
> >>>
> >>> http://erlangonxen.org/
> >>
> >>
>



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Lic. Javier Pimás
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
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