Hello everybody,<br>
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I would like to clear a few questions that I have about virtualization, please correct me if I'm wrong...<br>
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1) Xen is a virtual machine monitor that uses the hardware virtualization approach knows as para-virtualization.<br>
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2) Para-virtualization is a technology that provides the&nbsp; virtual
machine monitor access directly to the machine's hardware without
having&nbsp; an underlying operation system to manage that, so less
layer of abstraction are between the virtual machines OS guest and the
true hardware.<br>
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3) Xen 3.0 makes possible to guests virtual machines to access the
machine's hardware either through Xens APIs or through hardware enabled
virtualization like Intel VT-x or AMD Pacifica technologies, so you can
have either a modified guest&nbsp; OS like Linux or&nbsp; an unmodified
OS guest like Windows2003 running on top of Xen 3.0.<br>
&nbsp;<br clear="all">Are those <font size="3">thoughts okay?<br>
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</font>-- <br>Att.<br>---<br>Filipe<br>