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.
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