[TriLUG] qemu and xen

[Andrew Ball]

Hrm, that's very interesting.  You may want to try posting to
xen-users at lists.xensource.com .

qemu without the kernel module is used extensively for Xen.

I wonder if the driver hasn't been modified well enough to use
hypercalls instead of operations that won't work in a Xenofied Linux
kernel.  The dom0 and domU kernels run in ring 1.  I think I remember
reading something on the QEMU website about QEMU's not working with
Xen as well, but am certain that a modified userspace version of it
gets used for fully virtualized Xen domU's.

Hope this helps!
Andrew

On 6/9/06, Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:
> OK, let me restate for clarity.  What is KQEMU doing that does not allow
> it to run in XEN.  I'm not talking about running qemu in user space.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:42 -0400, Jason Tower wrote:
> > what are you talking about?  i had qemu running in a xen domain just last
> > week.  granted, i ran the whole thing in vmware.  maybe you should try it
> > that way.
> >
> > jason
> >
> > Ryan Leathers wrote:
> > > can anyone explain with any detail what makes it impossible to run qemu
> > > in a xen instance?
> > >
>
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