Open Source Virtualization – Xen
By admin on Jan 21, 2011 in open source
The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems.
A computer running the Xen hypervisor contains three components:
- Xen Hypervisor
- Domain 0, the Privileged Domain (Dom0) – Privileged guest running on the hypervisor with direct hardware access and guest management responsibilities
- Multiple DomainU, Unprivileged Domain Guests (DomU) – Unprivileged guests running on the hypervisor; they have no direct access to hardware (e.g. memory, disk, etc.)
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