The Xen® Hypervisor, is an open source virtualization platform that powers the world's largest clouds in production and is the foundation of many commercial products.
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Difference between Xen hypervisor and Xen server
Like title suggests...something is not very clear to me.
I am used to virtualbox and vmware, now I'd like to use xen but...I find two different websites, hypervisor and server.
What's the difference?
Moreover I really need TWO phisical machines, one…
Phate
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Cannot login to Xen guest pv
I've followed this guide to setup a Xen server and my first PV Guest. On the host system I only have two users, root and benny. I usually work through benny.
After creating a .cfg for my new pv guest, foobar-server, I run the following…
Mr Griever
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How to get cpu cores utilizations in xen?
I have installed xen as hypervisor and there are dom0 and some paravirtualized machins as domu VMs on it.
I know xentop is used for checking the performance of system and virtual machines, But, it just gives the total usage of cpus!
So, is there any…
Hamed
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In XEN how can I check if guest is HVM or PVH?
Xen supports various visualizations e.g. para virtualizastion and full hardware visualization. How can I know the type of visualization for running guest?
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Xen VGA passthrough: is it possible to have dual GPU's with single monitor
I hate dual-booting between Windows when I want to play a game and Linux when I need to work. I don't fancy running Linux in a VM and Wine almost never works for me. So, I'm thinking about buying a new mainboard and CPU that is compatible with…
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is it possible to paravirtualize 32 bit linux kernel on x64 xen hypervisor
If I have a 64 bit Xen kernel (hypervisor) can I run paravirtualized x86 linux guests or does it need to be fully virtualized, just like windows?
I would like to install all small memory guests as x86 so that they use less memory than they would…
Petr
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failed to read BIOS file: No such file or directory
I'm trying to install CentOS 7 in a VM from an ISO, but I keep getting an the error libxl_dom.c:892:libxl__load_hvm_firmware_module: failed to read BIOS file: No such file or directory. Here is my config:
name = 'CentOS'
builder = 'hvm'
memory =…
Dessa Simpson
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