> > That's very reasonable, but at the same time:
> > What we don't want to do is have a lot of variation in our domain
> > builder for loading different operating systems for no particular
> > reason.
>
> Sure. A reasonable concern. Do you have an ELF format
> windows kernel?
Of course not, but we're also not trying to run Windows fully
paravirtualized.
> My point being this is a fundamental point where variation happens.
> No boot-loader has been able to see OS vendors on a single format.
> I don't expect Xen will be able to change this trend.
We've managed to get NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and recently even Plan9 to
agree on using ELF with our __xen_guest section extension.
Christian
