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Re:FreeBSD on EC2 via defenestration by rwmj on Friday July 08, 2011 @06:13AM (#2741870)
I think you mean Windows para-virtualization.

This is never going to happen though. Not because Windows PV is not possible. Windows was ported to Xen PV in the distant past because Cambridge University had a Windows source license.

The reason it's not going to happen is because with the latest chips and 64 bit, hardware full virtualization is faster than paravirt. Paravirt on x86-64 can't use the i386 segmentation trick, because x86-64 (long mode) doesn't have full support for segment registers. So it has to use some other trick which is slower.

Re:FreeBSD on EC2 via defenestration by koenigdavidmj on Friday July 08, 2011 @09:48AM (#2742380)
By segmentation trick, do you mean the same thing that Russ Cox's 9vx (by way of vx32) does?
Re:FreeBSD on EC2 via defenestration by rwmj on Saturday July 09, 2011 @02:23AM (#2745157)