From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikhail Ramendik Subject: win4lin-like porting of win98 to xen? Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:17:08 +0400 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1097425028.2679.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hello, I have a question. If it's dumb, I apologize in advance ;) There is one previous successful attempt to do "partial virtualization", adapting the guest OS to increase performance. It's Win4Lin, and they adapted win9x by installing drivers. Now, perhaps the same kind of adaptation could be possible for xen? I understand WinXP is better than Win98; but the XP port has licensing problems. The structure of Win98, as far as I understand, allows to replace many things with "drivers" while not including Microsoft proprietary code (except redistributable things like the DDK). This kind of port could be made public. In this case xen would probably get a large userbase, as it would be an open-source, and probably more versatile (i.e. one could add MIDI support), replacement for win4lin. I, for one, would switch at once. So, is this possible? Yours, Mikhail Ramendik ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl