Xen - Definition and Overview

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor, developed by the University of Cambridge.

Xen uses a technique called paravirtualization to achieve high performance, even on its host architecture (x86) which is notoriously uncooperative to virtualization. Unlike traditional virtual machine monitors, which provide an execution environment exactly like the underlying hardware, Xen requires the porting of guest operating systems to the Xen API.

External links

Official Home page (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/)
Xen 2.0 Virtual Machine Monitor Released (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/05/1355219&tid=190&tid=106) Slashdot discussion
Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/2238253&tid=185&tid=223&tid=110&tid=106) Slashdot discussion

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Example Usage of Xen
	bitprophet: When it's working relatively smoothly, a Xen + Xen-tools workflow is one of the best Unix things ever.
	bgracely: @esignoretti - also check NetAppTV, http://www.youtube/NetAppTV (virtualization) section for NetApp + Xen demo videos
	bgracely: @esignoretti - our blog, http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualization/, has links to lots of NetApp + Xen content.

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Xen - Definition and Overview

External links

Example Usage of Xen