Darren New wrote:
> 
> As far as I understand it, an OS running under Xen has to know it's 
> running under Xen, doesn't it?  It's actually quite a large leap from 
> "we can run multiple OSes" to "we can run multiple OSes that don't have 
> to cooperate with the hypervisor".
> 

That's the difference, what hardware virtualization support (might be 
that also Xen 3.xx is demanded, as Jim said - dunno, 3.xx has been 
around for long enough for me to gotten started with it) does for Xen. 
Without such, the OS needs to know it's running under Xen, but if you 
have it, you can run unmodified guest OS's also.

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