Morten Nilsen wrote:
> Daniel Meyer wrote:
>>>> http://www.xensource.com/
>>> oh, vmware lookalike..
>> Nope, not at all. vmware is not paravirtualization, xen is. "real"
>> virtualization (the vmware way) has its pro and cons, paravirtualization
>> has them too.
> 
> para? ...I have no idea what you just said
> 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravirtualization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

Major difference:
Real virtualization gives you complete virtual hardware (except for the
cpu, which is not emulated but passed through to the virtual machine).
No modifications to the guest OS are needed. Paravirtualization needs a
modificated guest OS. Xen can bypass that modification when used with
Intel VT CPUs, but well, havent seen one in real life :-)

Danny
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