On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:45:17AM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >> - XEN > > I could be wrong here, but if my memory is somewhat intact, I think XEN > is not playing to well with OpenBSD. There was worked done to port it to > OpenBSD, I think it was two years ago, but I can't remember exactly, > it's in the archive anyway and as far as I know, there wasn't to much > good exchange on misc@ about it and not great success. > > So, I would strongly suggest to research it first, I know there was some > real try about it but somehow fail in the end to finish I think. > > Again, don't take my word on this one, that's what I kind of recall, but > my memory is known to fail at time! (;p>
Xen is not limited to paravirtualization (as you recall, a port of OpenBSD as a Xen paravirtualized DomU was being developed but was not finished). It also offers full-virtualization relying on CPUs with hardware virtualization capabilities.