On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:22:15AM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > >Why can't vmware use the Xen interface instead? > > > > We could. But it is our opinion that the Xen interface is unnecessarily > complicated, without a clean separation between the layer of interaction > with the hypervisor and the kernel proper. The interface we propose we > believe is more powerful, and more conducive to performance > optimizations while providing significant advantages - most > specifically, a single binary image that is properly virtualizable on > multiple hypervisors and capable of running on native hardware. I agree with Zach here, the Xen hypervisor <-> kernel interface is not very nice. This proposal seems like a step forward althogh it'll probably need to go through a few iterations. Without and actually useable opensource hypevisor reference implementation it's totally unacceptable, though.
