OT: Xen

Mon Apr 3 15:59:22 UTC 2006

TV> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:25:40 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
TV> From: Todd Vierling

TV> Note that Xen in particular has major advantages over some similar products
TV> because it eliminates CPU-consuming system trap hackery needed to emulate
TV> hardware devices and page-table mappings.  Xen is not, however, backed with
TV> extensive commercial support (XenSource is still evolving at the moment),

For those not following Xen closely, Google with quotes for

	"xensource gets new ceo, direction"

This should be interesting.  Hardly MS/Novell/IBM, but that's not all 
inherently bad...

Eddy
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