Xen Virtualization: Hypervisor (aka VMM aka Microkernel)
Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of
multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of
performance and resource isolation.
This package contains the Xen Hypervisor. (tm)
Modern computers are sufficiently powerful to use virtualization to
present the illusion of many smaller virtual machines (VMs), each
running a separate operating system instance. Successful partitioning
of a machine to support the concurrent execution of multiple operating
systems poses several challenges. Firstly, virtual machines must be
isolated from one another: It is not acceptable for the execution of
one to adversely affect the performance of another. This is
particularly true when virtual machines are owned by mutually
untrusting users. Secondly, it is necessary to support a variety of
different operating systems to accommodate the heterogeneity of popular
applications. Thirdly, the performance overhead introduced by
virtualization should be small.
Xen uses a technique called paravirtualization: The guest OS is
modified, mainly to enhance performance.
The Xen hypervisor (microkernel) does not provide device drivers for
your hardware (except for CPU and memory). This job is left to the
kernel that's running in domain 0. Thus the domain 0 kernel is
privileged; it has full hardware access. It's started immediately after
Xen starts up. Other domains have no access to the hardware; instead
they use virtual interfaces that are provided by Xen (with the help of
the domain 0 kernel).
Xen does support booting other Operating Systems; ports of NetBSD
(Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy), and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich)
exist. A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of
Xen, but is not available for release due to license restrictions.
In addition to this package you need to install the kernel-xen and
xen-tools to use Xen. Xen 3 also supports running unmodified guests
using full virtualization, if appropriate hardware is present. Install
xen-tools-ioemu if you want to use this.
[Hypervisor is a trademark of IBM]
- Developed at Virtualization
- Sources inherited from project openSUSE:Factory
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Source Files
Filename | Size | Changed |
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15048-localtime.diff | 0000001062 1.04 KB | |
32on64-call-gates.patch | 0000017585 17.2 KB | |
32on64-cpuid.patch | 0000000571 571 Bytes | |
32on64-ioemu.patch | 0000003995 3.9 KB | |
README.SuSE | 0000026604 26 KB | |
block-flags.diff | 0000001133 1.11 KB | |
block-iscsi | 0000002745 2.68 KB | |
block-losetup-retry.diff | 0000001721 1.68 KB | |
block-nbd | 0000000673 673 Bytes | |
boot.local.xenU | 0000001987 1.94 KB | |
boot.xen | 0000002385 2.33 KB | |
bridge-hostonly.diff | 0000002175 2.12 KB | |
check-libvncserver.patch | 0000000958 958 Bytes | |
check-xenapi.patch | 0000002868 2.8 KB | |
cross-build-fix.diff | 0000001337 1.31 KB | |
disable_emulated_device.diff | 0000000677 677 Bytes | |
domUloader.py | 0000014350 14 KB | |
edd.patch | 0000022202 21.7 KB | |
edid.patch | 0000006849 6.69 KB | |
guest-copy.patch | 0000023498 22.9 KB | |
hvm-debug-msg.patch | 0000016476 16.1 KB | |
hvm-efer.patch | 0000023568 23 KB | |
hvm-hypercall-context.patch | 0000010832 10.6 KB | |
hvm-hypercall-debug.patch | 0000002628 2.57 KB | |
hvm-pio-read.patch | 0000001326 1.29 KB | |
hvm-shared-info-size.patch | 0000001590 1.55 KB | |
init.xend | 0000002853 2.79 KB | |
init.xendomains | 0000009159 8.94 KB | |
intpte_t-cast.patch | 0000001805 1.76 KB | |
inval-sh-ldt.patch | 0000001037 1.01 KB | |
kill-sh_mapcache.patch | 0000000893 893 Bytes | |
libxen_permissive.patch | 0000000766 766 Bytes | |
logrotate.xend.conf | 0000000219 219 Bytes | |
netfront_mac.patch | 0000000651 651 Bytes | |
network-multi | 0000019434 19 KB | |
ptwr-sanity.patch | 0000002848 2.78 KB | |
pv-driver-build.patch | 0000002064 2.02 KB | |
qemu-security-etch1.diff | 0000013229 12.9 KB | |
ready | 0000000000 0 Bytes | |
realmode.patch | 0000013976 13.6 KB | |
rpmlint.diff | 0000001454 1.42 KB | |
serial-split.patch | 0000012642 12.3 KB | |
supported_module.diff | 0000000388 388 Bytes | |
svm-reg-save.patch | 0000007850 7.67 KB | |
sysconfig.xend | 0000001889 1.84 KB | |
tools-kboot.diff | 0000046860 45.8 KB | |
tools-xc_kexec.diff | 0000132401 129 KB | |
vgacon-50-lines.patch | 0000000514 514 Bytes | |
vgacon-keep.patch | 0000002949 2.88 KB | |
vmx-check-descr.patch | 0000000902 902 Bytes | |
vmx-no-cstar.patch | 0000002921 2.85 KB | |
vnc-i18n-keys.diff | 0000004791 4.68 KB | |
x86-emul-rf.patch | 0000005432 5.3 KB | |
x86-extra-trap-info.patch | 0000004470 4.37 KB | |
x86-machine-check.patch | 0000033626 32.8 KB | |
x86-nmi-inject.patch | 0000010795 10.5 KB | |
x86-page-cacheability.patch | 0000028443 27.8 KB | |
x86_emulate.patch | 0000013257 12.9 KB | |
xen-3.1-testing-src.tar.bz2 | 0005797383 5.53 MB | |
xen-bonding.diff | 0000002203 2.15 KB | |
xen-bootloader-dryrun.diff | 0000000987 987 Bytes | |
xen-changeset.diff | 0000000975 975 Bytes | |
xen-config.diff | 0000000461 461 Bytes | |
xen-destdir.diff | 0000009815 9.58 KB | |
xen-disable-qemu-monitor.diff | 0000002803 2.74 KB | |
xen-domUloader.diff | 0000002278 2.22 KB | |
xen-enable-hvm-debug.diff | 0000003314 3.24 KB | |
xen-generate-foreign-headers.diff | 0000000816 816 Bytes | |
xen-hvm-default-bridge.diff | 0000003222 3.15 KB | |
xen-hvm-default-pae.diff | 0000000609 609 Bytes | |
xen-hvm-netfront.diff | 0000000672 672 Bytes | |
xen-ioapic-ack-default.diff | 0000000801 801 Bytes | |
xen-ioemu-hvm-pv-support.diff | 0000007890 7.71 KB | |
xen-linguas.diff | 0000000544 544 Bytes | |
xen-lowmem-emergency-pool.diff | 0000002140 2.09 KB | |
xen-max-free-mem.diff | 0000005712 5.58 KB | |
xen-network-bridge.diff | 0000004493 4.39 KB | |
xen-no-dummy-nfs-ip.diff | 0000000608 608 Bytes | |
xen-paths.diff | 0000002669 2.61 KB | |
xen-rpmoptflags.diff | 0000000451 451 Bytes | |
xen-tightvnc-args.diff | 0000000688 688 Bytes | |
xen-vm-install.diff | 0000000392 392 Bytes | |
xen-vm-install.tar.bz2 | 0000173451 169 KB | |
xen-warnings.diff | 0000005193 5.07 KB | |
xen-xm-top-needs-root.diff | 0000000555 555 Bytes | |
xen-xmexample-nbd.diff | 0000000476 476 Bytes | |
xen-xmexample.diff | 0000006252 6.11 KB | |
xen.changes | 0000079874 78 KB | |
xen.spec | 0000087290 85.2 KB | |
xenapi-console-protocol.patch | 0000000825 825 Bytes | |
xend-config.diff | 0000002018 1.97 KB | |
xend_multiple_create.patch | 0000001046 1.02 KB | |
xm-test-cleanup.diff | 0000000513 513 Bytes | |
xmclone.sh | 0000021122 20.6 KB | |
xmexample.domUloader | 0000005926 5.79 KB | |
xmexample.iscsi | 0000000337 337 Bytes | |
xmexample.nbd | 0000000277 277 Bytes |
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