Kris Van Hees wrote: > The only requirement is that the > kernel is a patched version. When you compile Xen, it create dom0 and domU > kernels for you to use in guests. Acutally that's true only for machines that don't have Vanderpool Technology (available in recent Intel Xeon's) or Pacifica (upcomping for AMD64/Opteron). Current XEN release can work with any unmodified operating system as Guest if the CPU has VT. The whole technology is very close to pseries virtualization, on zSeries LPAR is closest but XEN is lacking IO virtualization compared to LPAR. Compared to z/VM, XEN is missing both IO virtualization and virtual (pageable) guest memory.
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