Re: XEN...if ever?
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:01:15PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote:
> If I understand things correctly:
> - Xen isn't yet available for powerpc and some think it'll never be.
Xen isn't available on 32bit powerpc.
> - MOL won't run 2.6, _and_ I couldn't find any explicit mention of it
> supporting 10.4, to say nothing of 10.5
MOL runs 10.4 just fine, probably 10.5 too. It runs on 2.6 kernels without
problem, but there is a problem right now to run 2.6 linux kernels inside of
mol.
> It all seems a bit overconstrained.
>
> FWIW, I did find Xensource's 05-Dec-05 press release which states:
> [...]a port of Xen to IBM’s Power PC architecture by IBM is close to
> completion, signaling broad cross-platform adoption of Xen.
>
> So one can hope :-)
This is for G5 and up or other 64bit powerpc machines only though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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