Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen high-performance x86 virtualization

[Karim Yaghmour]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> Our aim was to implement an efficient VMM for commodity hardware, and
> that really means x86. We're considering a port to x86-64, but so far
> we're limited in man power (this is why *BSD is not yet available, for
> example). 

I understand. Obviously infinite resources are everyone's wish ;)

What type of an effort would it be to port Xen to a new architecture?
I haven't looked at the code, so I can't say, but I'm really looking for
a rough approximation: 1 man-month, 10 man-months, 100 man-months?

Thanks,

Karim
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